Verb て-form + もない meaning


Example sentence, which is a response to someone who is talking like they were
already invited to a party:

まだ誘ってもないのに｡

I'm not able to wrap my head around the grammar used in what looks like a
pretty simple sentence:

  1. Why is the verb in its conjunctive form?
  2. What is the ない negating? Is it negating the verb 誘う, or is there a ある verb here that is being negated? Or something else entirely that I'm not seeing?
  3. Is that the only location where the も particle could fit in naturally? Assuming it means something like "even" here.




You seem to have missed the -teiru form. Let's look at this step by step:

  * **誘う** : a transitive verb, "to invite (someone)"
  * **誘っている** : the -teiru form of 誘う to express the resultant state, "has invited"; See [When is Vている the continuation of action and when is it the continuation of state?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3122/5010)
  * **誘っていない** : negative form of 誘っている, "has not invited"
  * **誘ってない** : a colloquial version of 誘っていない "hasn't invited"; See: [What is the difference between ～してる and ～している?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/51818/5010)
  * **誘ってもない** : added も meaning _even_ , "has not even invited"
  * **誘ってもないのに** : added [のに](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42408/5010) for regrettable feeling

So the entire sentence means:

> まだ誘ってもないのに。  
>  I haven't even invited you/them yet (but you/they are here)!

* * *

> Is that the only location where the も particle could fit in naturally?
> Assuming it means something like "even" here.

Another way to add も in this context would be 誘っていもしないのに, but this is much
less common. For the grammar, you may find
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/100239/5010) interesting.




You seem to have missed the -teiru form. Let's look at this step by step:

  * **誘う** : a transitive verb, "to invite (someone)"
  * **誘っている** : the -teiru form of 誘う to express the resultant state, "has invited"; See [When is Vている the continuation of action and when is it the continuation of state?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3122/5010)
  * **誘っていない** : negative form of 誘っている, "has not invited"
  * **誘ってない** : a colloquial version of 誘っていない "hasn't invited"; See: [What is the difference between ～してる and ～している?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/51818/5010)
  * **誘ってもない** : added も meaning _even_ , "has not even invited"
  * **誘ってもないのに** : added [のに](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42408/5010) for regrettable feeling

So the entire sentence means:

> まだ誘ってもないのに。  
>  I haven't even invited you/them yet (but you/they are here)!

* * *

> Is that the only location where the も particle could fit in naturally?
> Assuming it means something like "even" here.

Another way to add も in this context would be 誘っていもしないのに, but this is much
less common. For the grammar, you may find
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/100239/5010) interesting.

