Still hasn’t done something
Structure
- まだ + Verb[て] + いません
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)
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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
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It just show the polite form because in the N5 levels that’s often all people have been taught to use so far.
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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.
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I don’t know why this hasn’t occurred to me.
By why is it
「まだ～ていません」and not「まだ～ていませんでした」or「まだ～ませんでした」？
Hey @kariforuniajin !
Since でした means ‘was/were’ it will change the translation from ‘Still haven’t done (something)’ to ‘Still had not done (something)’.
Examples:
太郎くんはまだ来ていません。
Taro still hasn’t arrived.
太郎君はまだ来ていませんでした。
Taro had not arrived yet. (I checked earlier, but at the time I checked, he wasn’t here yet)
I hope this answers your question! 
ふがさん ありがとうございます！