Lad os mødes i parken efter arbejde.

Lad os is a very common Danish way to make a suggestion, like let’s in English.

• Lad comes from the verb at lade.
• os means us.

So Lad os + infinitive means let’s + verb.

In this sentence:

• Lad os mødes = Let’s meet

You can use the same pattern in many other sentences:

• Lad os gå = Let’s go
• Lad os spise = Let’s eat
• Lad os vente = Let’s wait

It is a normal, natural everyday structure.

Mødes is the form used when the meaning is meet each other or meet up.

Compare these:

• at møde nogen = to meet someone
• at mødes = to meet each other / to meet up

So:

• Vi møder ham = We meet him
• Vi mødes = We meet each other

In Lad os mødes, the idea is not that we meet someone else, but that we meet each other, so mødes is the correct form.

The -s ending here is very common in Danish for reciprocal meanings like this.

It looks similar to a passive -s form, and historically it is related, but in this sentence you should mainly think of mødes as a fixed verb meaning meet each other / meet up.

For a learner, the easiest way to remember it is:

• møde nogen = meet someone
• mødes = meet each other

So although the -s form can sometimes be passive in Danish, here it is best understood as a reciprocal meaning.

I usually means in and is often used for being inside or within a place or area.

• i parken = in the park

Danish often uses i where English also uses in, but sometimes Danish and English choose different prepositions depending on the place. For park, i is the normal choice.

Also notice parken:

• park = park
• parken = the park

Danish usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun instead of putting a separate word before it.

So:

• en park = a park
• parken = the park

Because Danish usually puts the at the end of the noun.

For common gender nouns:

• en park = a park
• parken = the park

This is called the suffixed definite article.

So instead of saying something like the park with a separate word before the noun, Danish normally says park-en.

A few more examples:

• en bil = a car → bilen = the car
• en bog = a book → bogen = the book

In Danish, words for everyday activities like work, school, lunch, breakfast, and similar routine contexts often appear without an article.

So:

• efter arbejde = after work
• på arbejde = at work / at the workplace
• i skole = in school / at school

This is similar to English, where we also often say after work, not necessarily after the work.

If you say efter arbejdet, that usually sounds more specific:

• efter arbejde = after work in general / after finishing work
• efter arbejdet = after the work / after that specific piece of work

So in this sentence, efter arbejde is the natural everyday expression.

Yes. That is also grammatical and natural.

Danish word order is fairly flexible with adverbials like i parken and efter arbejde, especially in a simple sentence like this.

Both of these work:

• Lad os mødes i parken efter arbejde
• Lad os mødes efter arbejde i parken

The difference is mostly about emphasis or what comes more naturally in context.

• If you want to highlight the place first, use i parken earlier.
• If you want to highlight the time first, use efter arbejde earlier.

A broad, learner-friendly pronunciation guide would be something like:

• Lad os ≈ la os
• mødes ≈ MUR-thes or MØ-thes depending on your accent target
• i = a long ee sound
• parken ≈ PAR-gen with a soft Danish r
• efter ≈ EF-ter
• arbejde ≈ AR-bai-de but often more reduced in real speech

A few tricky points:

• ø in mødes does not exist in English. It is a rounded front vowel.
• d in Danish is often softer than English d, especially in certain positions.
• arbejde is a word many learners find difficult because spoken Danish often reduces sounds a lot.

If you want a practical approach, learn the sentence in chunks:

• Lad os mødes
• i parken
• efter arbejde

That makes both pronunciation and rhythm easier.

It is neutral and natural in everyday speech. It is not especially formal.

You could say it to:

• a friend
• a colleague
• a classmate
• someone you know reasonably well

It sounds like a normal suggestion.

If you wanted to sound a bit more polite or less direct, you might say something like:

• Skal vi mødes i parken efter arbejde? = Shall we meet in the park after work?

But Lad os mødes i parken efter arbejde is perfectly normal.

Yes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• Lad os mødes i parken efter arbejde = Let’s meet in the park after work.
  This is a suggestion.
• Vi mødes i parken efter arbejde = We’re meeting in the park after work.
  This sounds more like a plan or arrangement that is already decided.

So the difference is similar to English:

• Let’s meet... = suggestion
• We’re meeting... = arrangement / statement of plan

It does not really express tense in the same way a normal statement does, because Lad os mødes is an invitation or suggestion rather than a plain present or past statement.

The sentence uses:

• Lad in the imperative-like suggestion structure
• mødes in the infinitive-based construction after Lad os

So instead of thinking of it as a standard tense sentence, it is better to think of it as a proposal structure:

• Lad os + verb

That structure usually refers to something you want to do now or in the future.

Yes, several.

Some natural alternatives are:

• Skal vi mødes i parken efter arbejde?
  A very common way to suggest it.

• Vi kan mødes i parken efter arbejde.
  This means We can meet in the park after work and sounds a bit less direct.

• Har du lyst til at mødes i parken efter arbejde?
  This is softer and more conversational: Do you feel like meeting in the park after work?

Your original sentence is still completely correct and natural. These are just stylistic alternatives.