Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj, hjælper medicinen med at holde feberen nede.

Selvom means although / even though.

It introduces a subordinate clause, not a main clause. That matters because Danish often changes word order in subordinate clauses. In this sentence:

Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj
= Although I am still a little unwell

So selvom is doing two jobs:

• giving the meaning although / even though
• signaling that the clause after it is grammatically subordinate

Because the clause after selvom is a subordinate clause.

In a normal main clause, you would usually say:

Jeg er stadig lidt sløj.
= I am still a little unwell.

But after a subordinating conjunction like selvom, Danish word order changes, and the adverb often comes before the finite verb:

selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj

So this is a very useful contrast:

• Jeg er stadig lidt sløj. → main clause
• Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj... → subordinate clause

This is one of the most important Danish word-order patterns to learn.

No, it is not a question.

Danish is a V2 language, which means that in a main clause, the finite verb usually comes in the second position.

Here, the whole subordinate clause comes first:

Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj, ...

That entire chunk takes the first position. So the main clause must begin with the verb:

hjælper medicinen med at holde feberen nede

That is why you get:

• Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj, hjælper medicinen...

If there were no fronted clause, you would say:

• Medicinen hjælper med at holde feberen nede.

So the inversion is normal statement word order in Danish after something has been placed first.

Sløj means something like:

• under the weather
• a bit unwell
• run-down
• not feeling great

It is often milder and more informal than syg.

Compare:

• Jeg er syg. = I am ill / sick.
• Jeg er lidt sløj. = I feel a bit off / a little unwell.

So sløj often suggests weakness, tiredness, nausea, or a general not-well feeling, without necessarily sounding serious.

Lidt means a little / a bit here.

It modifies the adjective sløj, so:

• sløj = unwell
• lidt sløj = a little unwell

This is a very common Danish pattern:

• lidt træt = a little tired
• lidt syg = a little ill
• lidt nervøs = a little nervous

So lidt works much like a bit or slightly in English.

Because stadig is the most natural word for still in this context: a state that continues.

Jeg er stadig lidt sløj
= I am still a little unwell

That means the condition started earlier and continues now.

Endnu can sometimes also relate to still / yet, but it is more common in contexts like:

• ikke endnu = not yet
• questions with yet
• or more formal/literary uses

So here, stadig is the normal everyday choice.

This is a common Danish construction:

hjælpe med at + infinitive

It means:

• help to do something
• literally something like help with doing something

So:

medicinen hjælper med at holde feberen nede
= the medicine helps to keep the fever down

Breakdown:

• hjælper = helps
• med at holde = with keeping / to keep

You will see this pattern a lot:

• Han hjælper med at lave mad. = He helps cook / helps with making food.
• Det hjælper med at reducere smerterne. = It helps reduce the pain.

English often skips the equivalent of med, but Danish commonly keeps it.

Literally, holde feberen nede means keep the fever down.

Here holde ... nede is a very common Danish expression meaning:

• keep something low
• keep something under control
• prevent something from rising

So:

• holde feberen nede = keep the fever down
• holde støjen nede = keep the noise down
• holde priserne nede = keep prices down

Nede is placed at the end because it belongs to the verb phrase as a kind of particle/adverb. Danish often puts these small directional/result words after the object:

• holde feberen nede
• skrive det ned
• tage jakken på

So this word order is very natural.

Good question. Danish uses both patterns, depending on the meaning.

When you talk about the condition in a general sense, you often say:

• Jeg har feber. = I have a fever / I have fever.

But when you refer to the specific fever as something being treated or controlled, Danish often uses the definite form:

• holde feberen nede = keep the fever down

So:

• have feber = have a fever, generally
• feberen = the fever, the specific fever being discussed

This is very natural Danish.

Because the sentence begins with a subordinate clause:

Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj, ...

The comma marks the boundary between that clause and the main clause:

Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj, hjælper medicinen med at holde feberen nede.

So the comma helps show:

• first: the although clause
• then: the main statement

Yes, absolutely.

That version is also correct:

Medicinen hjælper med at holde feberen nede, selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj.

The difference is mostly about focus and flow:

• Selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj, hjælper medicinen...
  starts with the contrast and sounds a bit more like Even though I still feel unwell...

• Medicinen hjælper..., selvom jeg stadig er lidt sløj.
  starts with the main point: The medicine is helping...

Both are grammatical and natural.

A useful breakdown is:

Selvom + subordinate clause, + main clause

More specifically:

• Selvom = although
• jeg stadig er lidt sløj = I am still a little unwell
• hjælper medicinen = the medicine helps
• med at holde feberen nede = to keep the fever down

So the full pattern is:

[subordinate clause], [main clause]

This sentence is a very good example of two important Danish rules at once:

1. subordinate-clause word order after selvom
2. verb-second word order in the main clause after a fronted element