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Academic teaching rationale

### áfulehaguatiya *“they are constantly catching crabs on the beach.”* The form **áfulehaguatiya** is built upon the root *áfuleha*, “to catch crabs on the beach” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-guatiya* (OUFUDA guatiya), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “they are constantly catching crabs on the beach” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **náfuleha** (“I catch crabs on the beach”); **báfuleha** (“you catch crabs on the beach”): 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 *“Néibugaa afúleha ûduraü.”* — ‘I am going to go clean fish.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *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.*