Hun vil gerne få børn, men ikke endnu.

Not exactly. In this sentence, vil is best understood as wants to or intends to, not just a neutral future marker.

So Hun vil gerne få børn is more like:

• She wants to have children
• She would like to have children

In Danish, vil often covers both will and want to, depending on context.

Gerne often adds the idea of gladly, willingly, or would like to.

So:

• Hun vil få børn = She wants to have children
• Hun vil gerne få børn = She would like to have children

That makes the sentence sound a bit softer and more natural. Very often, Danish uses vil gerne where English would use would like to.

In Danish, gerne usually comes after the finite verb.

Here the finite verb is vil, so the normal order is:

• Hun vil gerne få børn

That is the standard placement.

A rough pattern is:

• subject + finite verb + gerne + infinitive/main verb

So:

• Hun = subject
• vil = finite verb
• gerne = adverb
• få = infinitive/main verb

Because after modal verbs like vil, Danish normally uses the infinitive without at.

So:

• Hun vil få børn = correct
• Hun vil at få børn = incorrect

This is similar to English:

• She will go
• not She will to go

Common Danish modal verbs that behave this way include:

• vil = want to / will
• kan = can
• skal = shall / must / is going to
• må = may / must
• bør = ought to

Because få børn is the usual Danish expression for have children in the sense of become a parent / have kids someday.

So:

• få børn = have children, meaning to get children / become a parent

This is idiomatic. Danish often uses få where English uses have.

By contrast, have børn usually means to already have children:

• Hun har børn = She has children / She already has kids
• Hun vil gerne få børn = She would like to have children someday

So få is about getting them in the future, not already having them now.

Børn is plural: children.

The singular form is:

• et barn = a child

The plural is irregular:

• barn → børn

This is a very common word, so it is worth memorizing early.

Examples:

• et barn = one child
• to børn = two children

Because Danish, like English, often leaves out repeated words when they are understood from context.

So:

• Hun vil gerne få børn, men ikke endnu

literally leaves out something like:

• Hun vil gerne få børn, men (hun vil det) ikke endnu
• or more naturally: ..., men ikke endnu

English does the same:

• She wants children, but not yet

You do not need to repeat she wants them because it is already clear.

Here endnu means yet.

So:

• ikke endnu = not yet

This is a very common fixed expression in Danish.

Examples:

• Jeg er ikke færdig endnu. = I’m not finished yet.
• Hun er ikke kommet endnu. = She hasn’t arrived yet.

Be careful: endnu can also mean still or another/further in other contexts, but in ikke endnu, it clearly means not yet.

Yes, you may hear that, and it can work in conversation. But Hun vil gerne få børn is more idiomatic and more precise for she would like to have children someday.

The differences are roughly:

• vil gerne få børn = would like to have children / would like to become a parent
• vil have børn = wants children

The second version is shorter and can sound a little more direct. The version with få is especially natural when talking about the life event of having kids.

Because that is the natural place for it in this sentence.

Danish often puts this kind of adverbial phrase after the main idea:

• Hun vil gerne få børn, men ikke endnu.

The final position gives emphasis to the time limitation: not yet.

It is similar to English rhythm:

• She would like to have children, but not yet.

In a yes/no question, Danish usually puts the finite verb before the subject.

Statement:

• Hun vil gerne få børn.

Question:

• Vil hun gerne få børn?

That is a very important Danish pattern:

• statement: subject + verb
• yes/no question: verb + subject

It breaks down like this:

• Hun = subject
• vil = finite verb
• gerne = adverb
• få = infinitive/main verb
• børn = object
• men = conjunction (but)
• ikke endnu = adverbial phrase (not yet)

So the full structure is:

• subject + finite verb + adverb + infinitive + object, + conjunction + adverbial

This is a very useful model for many Danish sentences with modal verbs.