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[limpid narwhal]

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[ornate dirge]

de replaces indefinite (un, une, des) and partitive (du, de la) articles only. It isn't used with definite nouns or nouns without an atricle.

[stuck ember]

sorry what are definite nouns and nouns without articles?

i only know definite articles

you cant say un désir then?

[ornate dirge]

By definite noun i mean a noun with a definite article before it

"J'ai le désir" negates to "Je n'ai pas le désir"
"J'ai un désir" to "Je n'ai pas de désir"
"J'ai désir" to "Je n'ai pas désir"

All of them are grammaticalyl correct in the right context: in your specific sentence, "j'ai le désir" is used (because it's about "le désir de voyager" - the specific desire to travel)

[stuck ember]

ohokk so ig lots of uncountable nouns tend to use definite articles? like patience, time, desire, energy and all those words?? maybe its more common?

even though you can use indefinite articles with them too

[gusty glacier]

what's your native language? definite articles are more common in French than English, but here we would use a definite article in english too