DUAL-FUEL INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

A dual-fuel internal combustion engine including a regulating device for regulating the internal combustion engine, at least one piston-cylinder unit, at least one fuel injector for a gaseous fuel, which is assigned to this piston-cylinder unit, at least one gas supply device for gaseous fuel, which is assigned to this piston-cylinder unit, whereby the regulating device has a pilot operating mode in which the liquid fuel is introduced as a pilot fuel, whereby the regulating device in pilot operating mode has a transient mode in which, in an expansion phase of the piston-cylinder unit, the piston-cylinder unit is supplied with liquid fuel by the fuel injector.