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Academic teaching rationale

### aturiahatei *“she studies.”* The form **aturiahatei** is built upon the root *aturiaha*, “to study” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-tei*, placing third-person feminine ('she') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she studies” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **naturiaha** (“I study”); **baturiaha** (“you study”): 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 *“aba nidi aturiaha meriga luagu biyan irumu lida negociu”* — ‘I went to study in the U.S. for two years in business.’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). 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.*