Hun gjorde en glimrende jobb.

Hun is the standard Bokmål subject pronoun for she.

• Hun = she
• Henne = her as an object

You may also see ho in Nynorsk and in some dialects, but in standard Bokmål, hun is the expected form here.

Gjorde is the past tense of gjøre, which usually means do.

• å gjøre = to do
• gjør = does / is doing
• gjorde = did

In this sentence, gjorde en glimrende jobb works much like English did an excellent job. It is a very natural expression in Norwegian.

Yes, it is a very common and natural expression.

Norwegian often uses:

• gjøre en god jobb = do a good job
• gjøre en dårlig jobb = do a bad job
• gjøre en glimrende jobb = do an excellent job

So this sentence is idiomatic, not a strange word-for-word construction.

Because jobb is a common-gender countable noun in the singular.

• en jobb = a job
• jobben = the job

Since the phrase means an excellent job, Norwegian uses the indefinite article en before the noun phrase:

• en glimrende jobb

Glimrende is one of those adjectives that often keeps the same form.

Here it appears in the indefinite singular with an article:

• en glimrende jobb

After en / ei / et plus an adjective, Norwegian often uses the adjective in its -e form in phrases like this.

Also, glimrende is a very common fixed adjective form meaning excellent / brilliant / splendid. You will often see it unchanged:

• en glimrende idé
• et glimrende forslag
• glimrende resultater

So glimrende is the normal form here.

Jobb is a noun, and it is usually a common-gender noun:

• en jobb = a job
• jobben = the job
• jobber = jobs
• jobbene = the jobs

In this sentence, jobb does not necessarily mean a permanent occupation. It can simply mean piece of work, task performance, or job done.

Yes. This is standard Norwegian word order for a simple statement:

• Hun = subject
• gjorde = verb
• en glimrende jobb = object / complement

So the structure is:

Subject + verb + noun phrase

That is exactly what you would expect in a main clause.

Yes, absolutely. That would also be natural.

Some similar options are:

• Hun gjorde en god jobb = She did a good job
• Hun gjorde en veldig god jobb = She did a very good job
• Hun gjorde en fantastisk jobb = She did a fantastic job
• Hun gjorde en glimrende jobb = She did an excellent job

Glimrende sounds a bit stronger and a little more polished than just god.

Yes. Depending on context, glimrende can mean things like:

• excellent
• brilliant
• splendid

It is a positive, fairly strong adjective. In everyday speech, it can also be used by itself:

• Det er glimrende. = That is excellent.

So it is a useful word to learn.

It could be, but that would mean something slightly different.

• Hun gjorde en glimrende jobb = simple past, describing a completed action in the past
• Hun har gjort en glimrende jobb = present perfect, often emphasizing the result now or connecting it more to the present

Both are correct, but the original sentence uses the simple past gjorde.

It can refer to either one.

Jobb here is broad. It can mean:

• work someone did professionally
• a task they completed
• how well they performed something

So the sentence could be used about:

• an employee
• a student
• a mechanic
• a singer
• anyone who performed a task well

It is not limited to someone’s formal employment.