Ring til mig, hvis du mister din billet på stationen.
Call me if you lose your ticket at the station.
Questions & Answers about Ring til mig, hvis du mister din billet på stationen.
Why does the sentence start with Ring and not Du ringer or Ringer du?
Ring is the imperative (command form) of at ringe (to call). Danish imperatives are typically just the verb stem, with no subject:
- Ring til mig. = Call me. If you used a normal statement, you’d get something like:
- Du ringer til mig. = You call me. (a statement, not a request)
Why is it Ring til mig and not just Ring mig?
With ringe, Danish commonly uses til to mark “call (to someone)”:
- at ringe til nogen = to call someone Ring mig can exist in some contexts, but Ring til mig is the safest, most standard everyday phrasing.
Related options you might see:
- Ring mig op = Call me up (very common; slightly more “phone-call-ish”)
What does hvis do here, and why is there a comma before it?