palacedancer

[solemn violet]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[idle kettle]

If the country's already mentioned, you can put « y »

[narrow socket]

Il y a trente-six de personnes y?

[idle kettle]

More like erm

wait

« L'Indonésie est un très grand pays qui se situe en Asie. Deux-cent millions de gens y habitent. »
(Indonesia is a very big country located in Asia. Two hundred million people live there.)

If you want to keep using « il y a », maybe something like « Il y a trente-six millions de personnes qui y habitent »

[narrow socket]

Thank you!🙏

[thorny axle]

Or 'Trente-six millions de personnes habitent en <pays>', to go with your original formulation.

Just becareful with the gender of the country.

[idle kettle]

You can't do that because « il y a trente-six millions de personnes » is already a full clause

The second verb « habiter » would have no place so you'd have to turn that into a subordinate clause like I did

[thorny axle]

I'll be honest, I already forgot about the start of the sentence by the time I finished it.

Updated.

Or I guess I could have just added a 'qui'.