Hun er stadig usikker, men lidt ros fra læreren gør hende mere rolig.

Because Danish changes personal pronouns depending on their grammatical role.

• hun = she as the subject
• hende = her as the object

So:

• Hun er stadig usikker = She is still unsure
• ... gør hende mere rolig = ... makes her calmer

This works just like English she/her.

Stadig means still here.

In a main clause, Danish usually places this kind of adverb after the finite verb:

• Hun er stadig usikker

So the pattern is:

• subject + finite verb + adverb + rest

That is why it is Hun er stadig usikker, not usually Hun stadig er usikker.

A useful comparison:

• main clause: Hun er stadig usikker
• subordinate clause: ... fordi hun stadig er usikker

They are predicative adjectives here, meaning they come after verbs like er and after object-complement structures like gør hende rolig.

In Danish, adjectives still agree, but with hun/hende you normally use the basic form:

• Hun er usikker
• Hun bliver rolig
• Det er usikkert if the subject is neuter
• De er usikre if the subject is plural

So in this sentence:

• usikker matches hun
• rolig matches hende

No -t is needed because this is not neuter, and no -e is needed because it is not plural.

Ros means praise.

It is usually treated as an uncountable noun, so Danish often uses it the same way English uses praise:

• lidt ros = a little praise / some praise

You do not normally say en ros to mean a praise.

A very common learner confusion is:

• ros = praise
• rose = rose, the flower

So lidt ros has nothing to do with flowers.

Because lidt is modifying the noun ros.

Here it means:

• a little praise
• some praise

So the phrase is one unit:

• lidt ros fra læreren

Be careful not to read lidt as modifying rolig or usikker. It belongs with ros.

Compare:

• lidt ros = a little praise
• lidt usikker = a little unsure

Same word, different target.

Because fra shows the source of the praise:

• ros fra læreren = praise from the teacher

That is the natural choice here.

Af often corresponds to by, especially in passive constructions:

• Hun blev rost af læreren = She was praised by the teacher

So:

• ros fra læreren = the praise comes from the teacher
• rost af læreren = she is praised by the teacher

The base form is gøre = to do / to make.

Here gør is the present tense:

• gøre → gør

This verb is a bit irregular, so the form does not look exactly like the infinitive.

Common forms are:

• infinitive: gøre
• present: gør
• past: gjorde
• past participle: gjort

In this sentence, gør means makes:

• lidt ros fra læreren gør hende mere rolig
• a little praise from the teacher makes her calmer

Because the subject is grammatically treated as a singular amount:

• lidt ros fra læreren

The head noun is ros, which is uncountable, and lidt means a little/some. Danish therefore uses singular agreement:

• lidt ros ... gør
• not gør in a plural sense

This is similar to English:

• A little praise makes her calmer

This is a very common Danish pattern:

• gøre + object + adjective

It means:

• make + someone/something + adjective

So:

• gør hende mere rolig = makes her calmer / more calm

Other examples:

• Det gør mig glad = It makes me happy
• Musikken gør ham rolig = The music makes him calm

So hende is the object, and mere rolig describes the result.

Many learners will expect roligere, and that is a very reasonable expectation.

For a short adjective like rolig, the one-word comparative roligere is often the most textbook-like and safest choice:

• ... gør hende roligere

That said, mere rolig is understandable and does occur, especially in less formal or more flexible everyday usage.

So the practical answer is:

• roligere = the standard comparative many teachers would prefer
• mere rolig = understandable and used, but less traditional for this kind of adjective

If you want the form least likely to be corrected in class, use roligere.

Because men simply joins two main clauses.

The second clause starts with its subject:

• lidt ros fra læreren = subject
• gør = verb

So the normal order is:

• subject + verb

Danish inversion happens when some other element is placed first:

• I dag gør lidt ros fra læreren hende mere rolig

Here I dag is fronted, so the verb comes before the subject.

But after men alone, there is no special inversion:

• Hun er stadig usikker, men lidt ros fra læreren gør hende mere rolig.

Because Danish usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun.

• lærer = teacher
• læreren = the teacher

This is called the suffixed definite article.

So:

• fra læreren = from the teacher

If there is an adjective before the noun, Danish usually also adds a separate article:

• den flinke lærer = the kind teacher

But with just the noun by itself, læreren is enough.

Very approximately:

• gør has the Danish vowel ø, which does not exist exactly in English. It is somewhat like the vowel in British bird, but without an English r sound.
• læreren is roughly LEH-rer-en, though the Danish r and vowels are softer and more reduced than in English.

A few pronunciation notes:

• ø in gør is one of the tricky Danish vowels for English speakers.
• The r in Danish is not the same as a strong American English r.
• In natural speech, læreren can sound more compressed than its spelling suggests.

If you want a pronunciation-first approximation, you might think:

• gør ≈ guh/ger with rounded lips
• læreren ≈ LEH-rən or LEH-rer-en, depending on clarity and speed

But for accurate pronunciation, hearing native audio is much better than relying on English spelling.