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Academic teaching rationale

### afasihanei *“I pester.”* The form **afasihanei** is built upon the root *afasiha*, “to pester” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-nei*, placing first-person singular ('I') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “I pester” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nafasiha** (“I pester”); **bafasiha** (“you pester”): each shares the same stem yet bends it to a different shade of meaning, which is exactly how Garífuna wins great precision from a single root. While a citation of this exact form still awaits collection, its root is heard in living speech, as in *“Subúsewati ubauwagu, dan lan ligirún gürigia lun ladúgüni le ligundan, ibihalai le yubai lun lidan deregüdaguaü, ligia lan lagüchabai gudúmei hadan sun idúheñu. Subúsewatiluagu, dan lan meferen lan luma mabahüdüniwa lan le yubai lun gürigia, ru lan ubafu lun afásihani, mañuragunti giñe saminaü ubauwagu. Ligia lichigunbai subudi lun giarabailan liñúragun gürigia lidangien anúfudei labu yumúraü le gadanbalin, lun lubá gia láwagachun lau le aubai magundan lan, ariñegalai me le uáguti lafiñera; Subúsewatiluagu megeiwa tan aban lúrudu lun taunigiruni sun le