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"Jeg vil ikke ringe henne på telefonen."
Translation:I do not want to call her on the telephone.
September 15, 2015
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MrsSMBurns
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Tbh, the only English phrasing that sounds natural to me is "I won't phone her". I will not call her by telephone is perfectly good grammar but no one would actually say it.
As someone else said, "vil" means "want", not "will". The thing that concerns me about this sentence is that "ringe" means to ring or call by phone, so if he doesn't want to call her on the phone, what does he want to use? I don't think "ringe" would mean "call" in the sense of loudly saying someone's name to attract their attention.