Det lyder, som om holdkammeraten fik en strike.

In Det lyder som om ..., det is a formal or dummy subject, just like English it in It sounds as if ....

It does not refer to a specific thing here. Danish often uses det in general statements about appearance, sound, weather, and so on:

• Det regner = It is raining
• Det ser ud som om ... = It looks as if ...
• Det lyder som om ... = It sounds as if ...

Lyder is the present tense of lyde.

Here it means sounds in the sense of gives the impression or seems from what I hear, not just literal sound. So the structure is like English It sounds as if ...

It often suggests that the speaker is judging from audio, from what someone said, or from the general situation.

Som om means as if or as though.

It introduces a clause that describes an impression or appearance:

• Det lyder som om han er træt = It sounds as if he is tired
• Det ser ud som om de kommer for sent = It looks as if they are arriving late

In this sentence, som om introduces the idea that the teammate apparently got a strike.

The comma marks the start of a subordinate clause.

In Danish, many writers put a comma before clauses introduced by words like at, fordi, hvis, som om, etc. So:

• Det lyder, som om holdkammeraten fik en strike.

However, modern Danish also allows writing this without that comma if you follow the no-start-comma system:

• Det lyder som om holdkammeraten fik en strike.

So the version with the comma is correct, but you may also see it without one.

Because holdkammeraten is the definite form: the teammate.

Danish usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun:

• en holdkammerat = a teammate
• holdkammeraten = the teammate

So instead of putting a separate word for the in front, Danish normally adds -en or -et to the noun.

It is a compound noun:

• hold = team
• kammerat = mate / companion / friend
• holdkammerat = teammate
• holdkammeraten = the teammate

Danish makes compound nouns very freely, much like German. English often uses two words where Danish prefers one combined word.

Fik is the past tense of få, which often means get.

So literally it is something like the teammate got a strike. In sports and games, Danish often uses få for receiving or achieving a result:

• få et point = get/score a point
• få en bøde = get a fine
• få en strike = get/score a strike

So fik is natural here because the strike happened at a specific moment in the past.

Because the sentence focuses on the result, not the physical action.

Fik en strike means the teammate ended up with that result: a strike. That is very natural in Danish.

A verb like slog would focus more on the act itself. In many situations, Danish prefers få when talking about the outcome in a game or sport.

Yes. Strike is a common loanword in Danish, especially in bowling.

Danish often keeps English sports terms, and then treats them like ordinary Danish nouns. Here it takes the common-gender article en:

• en strike

So even though the word comes from English, it fits into Danish grammar normally.

Because after som om, you have a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Danish normally keep subject + verb order:

• som om holdkammeraten fik en strike

That is different from main-clause word order, where Danish often uses verb-second patterns.

A useful comparison:

• Main clause: Holdkammeraten fik en strike
• After som om: ... som om holdkammeraten fik en strike

So the order here is exactly what you should expect in a subordinate clause.

Not necessarily.

Det lyder som om ... expresses an impression, not certainty. It means something like:

• It sounds as if ...
• It seems from what I hear that ...

So the speaker is not stating the event as a confirmed fact in the strongest possible way. They are reporting how it appears from the sound or information available.