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Academic teaching rationale

### afaünchatiburiha *“he would habitually burst / he usually bursts.”* The form **afaünchatiburiha** is built upon the root *afaüncha*, “to burst” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the third-person masculine ('he') agreement suffix *-ti*, which fixes the subject as third-person masculine ('he'); then the habitual suffix *-buriha*, which makes the action one's customary practice — 'would usually, habitually, as a rule'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he would habitually burst / he usually bursts” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nafaüncha** (“I burst”); **bafaüncha** (“you burst”): 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 *“Úraga le, ayánuhati luágu afáüncha ni ában wéyaasu.”* — ‘The story mentions pop zero times.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); 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 parad