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Academic teaching rationale

### adagaratu *“she perches; the female one who perches.”* The form **adagaratu** is built upon the root *adagara*, “to perch” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-tu* (3SG.F/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she perches; the female one who perches” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nadagara** (“I perch”); **badagara** (“you perch”): 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 *“Asetiha(this is NOT a garifuna word; lets use (adágara – to set down) lumuti kapitan(find the Garifuna word) lagüri manawalu(warship).”* — ‘The captain charts the path of the warship.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu). 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.*