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I have been looking into the negative form of progressive in japanese.

Sites such as japaneseverbconjugator don't give a conjugation for both of those if they are not in the polite form, which makes me wonder if they exist at all.

In short, in a neutral tone, is it ok to say :

  • I am not eating : 食べていない　？

  • I was not eating : 食べていなかった　？

  • he doesn't want a horse : 彼は馬を欲しがっていない　？

  • he didn't want a horse : 彼は馬を欲しがっていなかった　？

I hope my question makes sense. Thanks a lot for your help !

Best,

W

Wignam
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  • So [this page](http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVerb=%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%B9%E3%82%8B&Go=Conjugate) has weird blanks in the cells where 食べていない and 食べていなかった are expected. I think this is just a bug on their side. – naruto Aug 02 '21 at 02:54

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Yes, these sentences are all grammatical and make perfect sense. The number of possible "stacked" conjugations is very large (see this for an example), so websites cannot show them all.

naruto
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  • Thank you ! It was indeed my guess that they were just not written, but as a beginner it is always hard to really make sure what you think is actually correct. Thank you also for the precious resources ! – Wignam Aug 02 '21 at 12:11