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
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Negative Present and Past Progressive
Yes, these sentences are all grammatical and make perfect sense. The number of
possible "stacked" conjugations is very large (see
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/61903/5010) for an example), so
websites cannot show them all.
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