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Academic teaching rationale

### agiribudana *“they have returned (present perfect — Suazo).”* The form **agiribudana** is built upon the root *agiribuda*, “to return” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyein*, which stretches the action across all past time up to the present, 'has always been …-ing' (the *-yein* marking a masculine subject). Taken whole, the word means precisely “they have returned (present perfect — Suazo)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nagiribuda** (“I return”); **bagiribuda** (“you return”): 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 *“Afiñetiña meha gumese lan Weyu agiribuda 25 lidan Duusu-hati”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution. 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.*