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Academic teaching rationale

### áfuihaguatibu *“you are constantly swimming.”* The form **áfuihaguatibu** is built upon the root *áfuiha*, “to swim” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-guatibu* (OUFUDA guatibu), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “you are constantly swimming” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **náfuiha** (“I swim”); **báfuiha** (“you swim”): 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. *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for fluent-elder validation rather than asserted as attested.*