"She told me that she loves you."

Translation: Hun fortalte mig at hun elsker dig.

[himwiththe]

...and you know that can't be bad.

[kebukebu]

Exactly what I was going to say.

[idemoudansku]

How do I know when to use fortalte and when sagde?

[water_color]

Wouldn't "she told me that she loved you" be more right because of the tense consequence in English? And also does Danish have the tense consequence too?

[DieLegende2]

Usually yes but you could see the loving as a general statement and those stay in present, if the "love" was in past, it'd already be over by the time it was reported

[SuperVener]

At ? Why not 'hvad' instead?

[jiffyam]

Becuase "at" means 'that.'

If you used "hvad" the sentence would translate to "she told me what she loves you" which doesn't make sense.

[deirdre_nyc]

The difference between them is just as it is in English.
"I told him" is not the same as "I said to him."

[lancEszterlanc]

Why "talte" isn't correct?

[DieLegende2]

'At tale' just means 'to talk/speak', it lacks the element of conveying information to somebody.

'Hun talte mig...' would mean something along the lines of 'She talked me...'

[lancEszterlanc]

I see. Thank you!