Tidak ada yang menolak jika sesi diperpanjang sejenak.

No one refuses if the session is extended for a moment.

Breakdown of Tidak ada yang menolak jika sesi diperpanjang sejenak.

• tidak: not
• jika: if
• yang: who
• menolak: to refuse

Questions & Answers about Tidak ada yang menolak jika sesi diperpanjang sejenak.

What does the pattern tidak ada yang menolak literally mean, and how does it work grammatically?

Literally, tidak ada yang menolak is:

• tidak = not
• ada = there is / there are
• yang = who/that/which (linking word)
• menolak = to refuse / to reject / to object

So the structure is:

tidak ada yang menolak
= there is no one who refuses
= no one refuses / no one would object

Grammatically:

• ada often means there is / there are.
• yang introduces a descriptive clause, like who/that in English.
• The noun (orang = person/people) is understood, not stated:
  • tidak ada [orang] yang menolak
    = there is no person who refuses.

This tidak ada yang + verb pattern is very common and natural in Indonesian to say no one does X or no X does Y (depending on context).

Why do we need yang in tidak ada yang menolak? Why not just tidak ada menolak?

Without yang, the sentence becomes ungrammatical.

• yang links ada to a clause that describes the (implicit) noun.
• Think of it as there is no [one] who refuses:
  • tidak ada [orang] yang menolak