「〜ている」Sentence Translation


When you have a phrase like,

> 起きたばかりでまだなにも食べていない。

does it feel more like

"I just woke up, so I haven't eaten anything yet" ?

or

"I just woke up, so I'm not eating anything yet".




The former. For the vast majority of verbs and situations I can think of, it
is:

> まだ [ te-form verb ] いない  
>  _I haven't [ past participle ] yet_

  * まだ髪が乾いていない _My hair hasn't dried yet_
  * その本はまだ読んでいない _I haven't read that book yet_
  * まだ聴いていない曲 _A song I haven't heard yet_

* * *

_I'm not [ present participle ] yet_ can be expressed with something like:

> まだ [ verb stem ] はじめていない

So for example, まだ何も食べはじめていない (literally _I haven't started eating yet_ ) is
closer to _I'm not eating anything yet_.




The former. For the vast majority of verbs and situations I can think of, it
is:

> まだ [ te-form verb ] いない  
>  _I haven't [ past participle ] yet_

  * まだ髪が乾いていない _My hair hasn't dried yet_
  * その本はまだ読んでいない _I haven't read that book yet_
  * まだ聴いていない曲 _A song I haven't heard yet_

* * *

_I'm not [ present participle ] yet_ can be expressed with something like:

> まだ [ verb stem ] はじめていない

So for example, まだ何も食べはじめていない (literally _I haven't started eating yet_ ) is
closer to _I'm not eating anything yet_.

