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Academic teaching rationale

### íchaaguani *“the act of put (state of)ing.”* The form **íchaaguani** is built upon the root *íchaagua*, “to put (state of)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the nominalising suffix *-ni*, which names the very act or state of the verb. Taken whole, the word means precisely “the act of put (state of)ing” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **níchaagua** (“I put (state of)”); **bíchaagua** (“you put (state of)”): 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 *“Láurügü hamuga nafidirun aban aganbahagülei luagu narigei, gayaraati hamuga ladügün ligaburi narufuduni nigibu lun hasaminarun amu ua lan nániña dan le, le lan linarün katei, siñarügü liña naganbuniña buidu. ”Dan le nagumeserunbei íchaagua nungua lidoun halugaarun gürigia maganbuntiña, aba masigihadina lan asaminara wuriba hawagun””*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Quesada 2017 §3.3. This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for fluent-elder valid