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### agurabahatiburiha *“he would habitually wait for / he usually waits for.”* The form **agurabahatiburiha** is built upon the root *agurabaha*, “to wait for” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). 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 wait for / he usually waits for” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nagurabaha** (“I wait for”); **bagurabaha** (“you wait for”): 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 *“Anhein lǘbadün lubéi agurabaha busu o lun letenirun surusia hun, gayaraati hayusuruni dan ligía lun haliihan o lun hadügün amu katei le hemegeirun”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequen