"Tidak banyak pohon di gurun."

Translation: There are not many trees in the desert.

[laviedulinguiste]

In English, the statement beginner "There are" is needed to make this a full sentence. "There are not many trees in the desert".

[S9N1t]

Could someone please explain how this is a full sentence in Indonesian? I am wanting to put in the word 'ada'. Is it that 'tidak' can mean 'there is/are not', ie it kind of includes the 'ada'?

Or I gather, from laviedulinguiste's comment, that the original English translation did not include 'There are', which implies that maybe the Indonesian sentence is not actually complete?

[MariaSteph123]

Hi there! I'll have to agree with you. If it was a literal translation, it should've been : "tidak ada banyak pohon di gurun".
But in daily use, you can ignore that and it means the same thing as "Not many trees in the desert." ^^

[dini07my]

Tidak ada banyak pohon di gurun.
There is/are not : tidak ada

[Hans726]

Not many or not a lot of, is the same