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auserawamali
EN we have already tried (it) / we just tried (it) — it just happened
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · new dictionary · stockle carib
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
How the form is built
Root: ausera — to try
- IPFV.1PL (immediate perfective 'already / just happened', NOT permissive) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
Paradigm: aspect
-wamali — IPFV.1PL (immediate perfective 'already / just happened', NOT permissive) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
Academic teaching rationale
### auserawamali *“we have already tried (it) / we just tried (it) — it just happened.”* The form **auserawamali** is built upon the root *ausera*, “to try” (Lila Garífuna Diccionario (Suazo)). To it is joined the immediate-perfective suffix *-wamali* (1PL), which reports the action as already completed — 'we have just done it, it just happened' (not a request). Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have already tried (it) / we just tried (it) — it just happened” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nausera** (“I try”); **bausera** (“you try”): 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 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). 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.*
Voices & attributed examples (3)
ariha ha- mdiwa | darigua hamdiwa | auseragua hamâdiwa
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedariha ha- mdiü | auseragua hamdiü
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedariha hamâdina | darigua hamdina | auseragua hamdina
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_granted
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