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Academic teaching rationale

### áfayaratei *“she travels (one trip.”* The form **áfayaratei** is built upon the root *áfayara*, “to travel (one trip” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-tei*, placing third-person feminine ('she') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she travels (one trip” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **náfayara** (“I travel (one trip”); **báfayara** (“you travel (one trip”): 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 *“Hanarimeti láhuyun huya darí lun tagumeserun árüka áfayara”*. [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.*