まだ～ていません - Grammar Discussion

[Jake]

Still hasn’t done something

Structure

• まだ + Verb[て] + いません

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[CatPause]

Two questions…
This is simply the progressive tense in the polite negative, yah?

Does it have to be in the polite? Would まだたべていない。 not work?

(I’m just a little confused as to why the other further reading (E-Japanese link) of this also has it specifically in the polite tense as well)

[Xyzyx]

It doesn’t have to be in the polite form. So yeah, まだたべていない works. See the video by Misa/Japanese Ammo

[Johnathan-Weir]

It just show the polite form because in the N5 levels that’s often all people have been taught to use so far.

[ahewgill]

During reviews it is difficult to know if BunPro is looking for the まだ～ていません or まだ grammar point. I am often getting it wrong by answering まだ～ていない. I think a warning message of [more polite] would work well here.

[Jace]

it lacks this structure maybe ?