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ayusurahumai
EN you all use
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · new dictionary · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary · stockle carib
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
How the form is built
Root: ayusura — to use
- MOD.2PL — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-humai — MOD.2PL [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### ayusurahumai *“you all use.”* The form **ayusurahumai** is built upon the root *ayusura*, “to use” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-humai*, placing second-person plural ('you all') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “you all use” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nayusura** (“I use”); **bayusura** (“you use”): 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 *“Gürigia le asandirubei súnwandan gíbeya lan katei lun lichügü, gayaraati lagumeserun ayusura düroga o lárügüdün amu échuni wuribati”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *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.*
Voices & attributed examples (3)
nakuparuba seingü wügriña ___ I ||2. ayusura aban umegeni lun somu dasi [nihanba saudieru le nakupara
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedadimiriha2.ayusura katai murusun murusun { ariha bâmugai lagimihan ai- gini ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bankayusura aban katai [ yusu lumuti nisaudierún ] l 2.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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