Det ser ud til, at hun kommer til tiden.

Here det is a formal subject or dummy subject. Danish often uses det in expressions like:

• Det ser ud til, at ...
• Det virker som om, at ...
• Det lader til, at ...

So even though the real content is about hun, Danish uses det to introduce the whole statement.

You can think of it a bit like English it in It looks like she is arriving on time. The it does not refer to a specific thing; it is just needed to make the sentence work naturally.

Ser ud til is a very common expression meaning something like appears to, seems to, or looks like.

It is built from:

• ser = present tense of se (to see / look)
• ud = out
• til = to

But you should learn ser ud til as a fixed expression, not by translating each word separately. The literal parts are less important than the whole meaning.

Examples:

• Det ser ud til, at det regner senere.
• Det ser ud til, at han har ret.

In Det ser ud til, at ..., the at introduces a subordinate clause.

So the structure is:

• Det ser ud til
  • at-clause

In your sentence:

• Det ser ud til = main clause
• at hun kommer til tiden = subordinate clause

This is similar to English It seems that ... or It looks as if ...

Do not confuse this at with the infinitive marker at meaning to before a verb, as in at komme. Here it is a conjunction meaning that.

That depends on the Danish comma system being used.

In Danish, there are two accepted systems:

• with start comma
• without start comma

So both of these can be correct:

• Det ser ud til, at hun kommer til tiden.
• Det ser ud til at hun kommer til tiden.

The version you were given uses start comma, which many learners see often in writing.

So the comma is not about meaning here; it is mainly about punctuation style.

Danish very often uses the present tense to talk about the future, especially when the time is clear from context.

So hun kommer til tiden can naturally refer to a future event: she is arriving on time / she will arrive on time.

This is very normal in Danish. English does something similar sometimes:

• She arrives tomorrow
• The train leaves at six

So there is no need for a special future form here.

Usually it is best understood as arrives on time or gets there on time.

The expression til tiden means on time. With komme, it often refers to the moment of arrival.

Compare:

• Hun kommer til tiden. = She arrives on time.
• Hun er til tiden. = She is on time / punctual.

Both can work in some contexts, but komme til tiden focuses more on the act of arriving.

Because after at, Danish uses subordinate clause word order.

In a normal subordinate clause, the subject comes before the verb:

• at hun kommer til tiden

This is different from a main clause, where Danish often has verb-second word order.

For example:

• Main clause: Hun kommer til tiden.
• Main clause with adverb first: I dag kommer hun til tiden.
• Subordinate clause: ..., at hun kommer til tiden.

So after at, you do not invert the subject and verb.

Yes. That is also natural Danish.

There is a close relationship between:

• Det ser ud til, at hun kommer til tiden.
• Det ser ud som om, at hun kommer til tiden.

Both are common and both express appearance or probability.

Very roughly:

• ser ud til at / ser ud til, at is a compact, very common pattern
• ser ud som om, at can feel a little more like looks as if

In everyday use, the difference is often small.

Sometimes yes, but learners should be careful.

In speech and informal writing, Danish sometimes drops at after expressions like ser ud til:

• Det ser ud til hun kommer til tiden.

You may hear or see that, but for a learner, the safest form is:

• Det ser ud til, at hun kommer til tiden.

That version is clear, standard, and easy to build on.

Yes, very much so.

Til tiden means on time and is best learned as a set phrase.

Examples:

• Toget kom til tiden.
• Hun møder altid til tiden.
• Vi skal være der til tiden.

Do not try to translate it word by word too literally. Just remember til tiden = on time.

In normal speech, several parts are reduced.

A learner-friendly approximation is:

• det often sounds like de
• ser may sound closer to sehr
• ud til can run together a bit
• at is often very weak
• hun may sound short and unstressed unless emphasized

The main thing to know is that spoken Danish tends to be more reduced and connected than the spelling suggests.

A careful learner strategy is:

1. Learn the full written form.
2. Listen for reduced pronunciation in real speech.
3. Treat ser ud til as one rhythm group.

Not naturally with the same structure.

Because ser ud til in this pattern normally needs det:

• Det ser ud til, at hun kommer til tiden.

You would usually change the whole sentence instead, for example:

• Hun ser ud til at komme til tiden.

That version is also very common, but it has a slightly different structure:

• Hun is now the subject of the sentence
• at komme is an infinitive after ser ud til

So yes, you can express the same idea differently, but you normally would not just remove det and keep everything else unchanged.

Both are natural and very similar in meaning.

1. Hun ser ud til at komme til tiden

   • more directly centered on hun
   • uses an infinitive: at komme

2. Det ser ud til, at hun kommer til tiden

   • introduces the whole idea with dummy-subject det
   • uses a full subordinate clause: at hun kommer til tiden

In many situations, they are interchangeable. The second version can feel a bit more like a full statement about the situation as a whole, while the first attaches the appearance more directly to hun.