Hun prøver ikke at græde, selvom hun er meget skuffet.

Because græde is in the infinitive form, and after prøve Danish normally uses at + infinitive.

A very common pattern is:

prøve at + verb

So:

prøver at græde = tries to cry

In this sentence, the negation is added, so it becomes:

prøver ikke at græde = tries not to cry

In a main clause, Danish ikke usually comes after the finite verb.

Here the finite verb is prøver, so the basic order is:

Hun + prøver + ikke + at græde

That is normal Danish word order.

Even though ikke comes after prøver, its meaning is connected to at græde, so the whole phrase means tries not to cry.

With this kind of structure, standard Danish normally places ikke before at + infinitive:

ikke at græde = not to cry

So:

Hun prøver ikke at græde is the natural phrasing.

For an English speaker, it can help to think of it as closer to not to cry than to not cry.

In normal use, it is usually understood as She is trying not to cry.

So the idea is that she is making an effort to avoid crying.

Danish allows this structure, where ikke sits after the finite verb but semantically belongs with the infinitive phrase.

If you wanted to make She is not trying to cry especially clear, you would usually rely on context, stress, or rephrasing.

Because selvom hun er meget skuffet is a separate clause, and that clause needs its own subject.

So you have:

• main clause: Hun prøver ikke at græde
• subordinate clause: selvom hun er meget skuffet

Each clause needs its own subject, so hun appears again.

Because selvom introduces a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses do not use normal main-clause inversion.

In a main clause, Danish often follows the verb-second pattern. But after a subordinating conjunction like selvom, the order is typically:

conjunction + subject + finite verb

So:

selvom hun er meget skuffet

not

selvom er hun meget skuffet

A useful extra point: if there were an adverb like ikke inside that subordinate clause, it would normally come before the verb:

selvom hun ikke er meget skuffet

Here skuffet functions as an adjective meaning disappointed.

Historically, it is related to a past participle, but in this sentence you can simply treat it as an adjective used after er:

hun er skuffet = she is disappointed

This is very common in Danish with emotion or state words.

Meget is the normal word for very when modifying an adjective or adverb.

So:

meget skuffet = very disappointed

English speakers sometimes confuse meget and mange, but they are used differently:

• meget for degree or uncountable quantity
• mange for countable plural nouns

So here meget is correct because it intensifies the adjective skuffet.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Danish present tense often covers both:

• English simple present: tries
• English present progressive: is trying

So Hun prøver ikke at græde can naturally be translated as either She tries not to cry or She is trying not to cry, depending on the situation.

Because selvom hun er meget skuffet is a subordinate clause, and Danish often separates clauses with a comma.

You will commonly see a comma before conjunctions like selvom, fordi, and at when they introduce subordinate clauses.

One small complication: Danish has had different comma systems, so you may sometimes see variation in whether a comma appears before the subordinate clause. But in the sentence you were given, the comma is completely normal.