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Todavía no he hecho la llamada.

Todavía no he hecho la llamada.
I have not made the call yet.
From Lesson 121:Phone calls and messages (¿dígame?, un recado)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Todavía no he hecho la llamada.

Why is todavía placed at the very beginning of the sentence?
In Spanish, it is very common to group todavía and no together at the beginning of a sentence to mean "not yet". You could also say No he hecho la llamada todavía, which matches the English word order closer, but todavía no is an extremely natural and common phrasing in Spain.
What tense is he hecho?
It is the present perfect tense. It is formed using the helper verb haber (here, he means "I have") and a past action word called a past participle (hecho). In Spain, this tense is heavily used to talk about recent events or things that are still relevant to the present, like a task you haven't finished yet.
Why is the word for "made" hecho instead of ending in "-ido"?
Hecho is the past participle of the verb hacer (to do / to make). Hacer is completely irregular. Instead of following the normal rule of adding -ido to make "hacido" (which does not exist in Spanish), it becomes hecho. This is a very common irregularity you simply have to memorize.
Could I just say Todavía no he llamado instead?
Absolutely! Todavía no he llamado means "I haven't called yet." The sentence here translates literally as "I haven't made the call" (hecho la llamada). Both are perfectly natural in Spanish, exactly as they are in English.

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