Efterhånden som pulsen stiger, får hun mere sved på panden.

Efterhånden som means something like as, gradually as, or in step with the way something changes over time.

In this sentence, it shows a gradual relationship:

• Efterhånden som pulsen stiger ... = As the pulse rises ...

It is not quite the same as mens.

• mens = while, mainly just showing that two things happen at the same time
• efterhånden som = as / progressively as, showing development or change

So efterhånden som is a better choice when one thing increases little by little and another thing changes along with it.

Pulsen is the definite form: the pulse.

In Danish, definiteness is often added as an ending:

• en puls = a pulse
• pulsen = the pulse

In this sentence, the pulse is understood as a specific one — her pulse, or the pulse rate being discussed — so Danish naturally uses the definite form.

This is very common in Danish, especially when the noun is understood from context.

This is because the sentence starts with a subordinate clause:

• Efterhånden som pulsen stiger, ...

After that, the main clause follows, and Danish uses verb-second (V2) word order in main clauses. That means the finite verb comes before the subject if something else has been placed first.

So:

• Efterhånden som pulsen stiger, får hun mere sved på panden.

The first position of the sentence is effectively occupied by the subordinate clause, so the main clause begins with the verb får, followed by the subject hun.

Compare:

• Hun får mere sved på panden.
• Efterhånden som pulsen stiger, får hun mere sved på panden.

This inversion is very important in Danish.

Danish often uses the present tense in places where English also uses the present tense for general statements or descriptions of what happens as part of a process.

• stiger = rises / is rising
• får = gets / is getting

The present tense in Danish can describe:

• a general fact
• a habitual process
• something currently happening
• a typical cause-and-effect relationship

So here it sounds natural because the sentence describes what happens when the pulse goes up.

In Danish, the present tense of most verbs ends in -r.

For example:

• at stige → stiger
• at få → får

This is one of the easiest parts of Danish verb conjugation compared with English, because Danish verbs do not change for person:

• jeg får
• du får
• hun får
• vi får

The form stays the same.

Yes — får literally means gets or receives, but in Danish it is used very broadly.

Here, får hun mere sved på panden literally looks like:

• she gets more sweat on her forehead

In natural English, you might also say:

• she starts sweating more on her forehead
• she gets sweatier on the forehead

So får is not always a literal receive. It often means that someone comes into a new state or experiences something.

Because sved is an uncountable noun, like sweat in English.

Danish usually uses:

• mere = more with uncountable nouns
• flere = more with countable plural nouns

So:

• mere sved = more sweat
• flere dråber = more drops

Since you do not normally count sved as individual items, mere is the correct word.

Because sved is being used as an uncountable substance noun.

Just as English says:

• more sweat

and not normally

• more a sweat

Danish says:

• mere sved

not

• en sved

So the lack of an article is completely normal here.

Danish often uses the definite form of body parts where English prefers a possessive:

• på panden = literally on the forehead
• natural English: on her forehead

This is very common in Danish, especially when it is already obvious whose body part is meant.

So Danish often says things like:

• Hun vasker hænderne. = She washes her hands.
• Han har ondt i ryggen. = He has pain in his back.

In the same way:

• mere sved på panden = more sweat on her forehead

Using på hendes pande is possible, but it is less natural here unless you really want to emphasize that it is her forehead.

Yes.

• en pande = a forehead
• panden = the forehead

The ending -n marks the definite form because pande is a common-gender noun.

This is the same pattern as:

• en bil → bilen
• en hånd → hånden

Yes. You can also put the main clause first:

• Hun får mere sved på panden, efterhånden som pulsen stiger.

This means essentially the same thing.

The difference is mostly about emphasis and flow:

• Efterhånden som pulsen stiger, får hun ... focuses first on the rising pulse
• Hun får ..., efterhånden som pulsen stiger focuses first on what happens to her

Both are grammatical.

Yes, you could say:

• Efterhånden som hendes puls stiger ...

That is grammatical and clear.

But pulsen is often more natural if it is already obvious whose pulse is being discussed. Danish frequently prefers the definite noun when possession is understood from context.

So:

• pulsen = more neutral, often more idiomatic here
• hendes puls = more explicit, possibly more emphatic

Yes. The verb stige means to rise, to go up, or to increase.

So:

• pulsen stiger = the pulse rises / the pulse is going up

This is a very natural way in Danish to talk about pulse, temperature, prices, numbers, and so on.

Examples:

• Temperaturen stiger. = The temperature rises.
• Priserne stiger. = Prices are rising.

A very close literal version would be:

• As the pulse rises, gets she more sweat on the forehead.

That sounds unnatural in English, but it helps show the Danish structure:

• Efterhånden som = as / gradually as
• pulsen = the pulse
• stiger = rises
• får hun = gets she (because of Danish inversion)
• mere sved = more sweat
• på panden = on the forehead

This kind of literal breakdown can be useful for understanding the grammar, even though it is not how natural English would say it.