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Academic teaching rationale

### heiguatuburiha *“she would habitually fall / she usually falls.”* The form **heiguatuburiha** is built upon the root *heigua*, “to fall” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it are joined the third-person feminine ('she') agreement suffix *-tu*, which fixes the subject as third-person feminine ('she'); 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 “she would habitually fall / she usually falls” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nheigua** (“I fall”); **bheigua** (“you fall”): 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 *“Aguyedaguaguda lumuti wügüri lé gíri bei Hárabaganali luágu dúna wuríbati (gubégubeti), méreti heigua.”* — ‘The man named Hárabaganali slipped on the bad water (mud), he has no strength (he fell down).’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect