Jeg vil hellere skrælle en appelsin end købe juice, selvom det tager lidt længere tid.

Yes. In Danish, vil hellere is a very common way to express preference between two actions, and it often corresponds to English would rather.

So: Jeg vil hellere A end B = I would rather do A than do B

Because Danish does not have to match the English wording literally. In a normal present-time statement of preference, vil hellere is the natural choice.

So Jeg vil hellere ... often translates as I’d rather ... in English, even though vil is literally related to want / will.

Ville hellere can also exist, but it often sounds more tentative, more hypothetical, or more tied to past context.

Hellere is the form used for rather when comparing two options.

Here the speaker is choosing between:

• skrælle en appelsin
• købe juice

So Danish uses hellere.

By contrast, heller is very often used in negative sentences to mean either or also not:

• Jeg vil heller ikke have juice = I don’t want juice either

Because skrælle comes after the modal verb vil. After modal verbs in Danish, you normally use the bare infinitive without at.

So:

• jeg vil skrælle
• not jeg vil at skrælle

This is similar to English:

• I will peel
• not I will to peel

For the same basic reason: in this structure, købe is also an infinitive used directly in the comparison.

After hellere ... end ..., Danish commonly uses:

• hellere + infinitive + end + infinitive

So:

• hellere skrælle ... end købe ...

This is the standard, natural pattern.

Here end means than.

It is used in comparisons, and hellere ... end ... means rather ... than ....

So:

• hellere skrælle en appelsin end købe juice = rather peel an orange than buy juice

Because appelsin is a common-gender noun in Danish, so its indefinite article is en.

• en appelsin = an orange
• appelsinen = the orange

You simply have to learn the noun together with its article.

Because juice is being used as a mass noun here, meaning juice in general, not one specific item.

So:

• købe juice = buy juice

This is similar to English, where you can say buy juice without saying a juice.

If you were talking about one drink, one carton, or one serving, Danish might use a different structure, depending on context.

Selvom means although or even though.

It introduces a contrast:

• The speaker prefers peeling an orange
• even though that choice takes a bit more time

So the second part explains a disadvantage that does not change the speaker’s preference.

Because selvom introduces a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses do not use the same inversion pattern as main clauses.

So the normal order is:

• selvom det tager ...

with subject + verb:

• det = subject
• tager = verb

This is a very important Danish pattern:

• main clauses often show inversion
• subordinate clauses usually do not

Here det means it, but the it refers to the whole action or situation: peeling an orange instead of buying juice.

Danish very often uses det in expressions like:

• det tager tid = it takes time

So det is not a specific object like the orange itself; it refers more generally to that process / that choice.

Because:

• lidt = a little / a bit
• længere = longer
• tid = time

So lidt længere tid means a little longer or a bit more time.

Længere is the comparative form used for duration:

• lang = long
• længere = longer

And tid stays singular because it is normally treated as an uncountable noun.

Not always. In modern Danish, you may see both versions depending on the comma system being used:

• Jeg vil hellere skrælle en appelsin end købe juice, selvom det tager lidt længere tid.
• Jeg vil hellere skrælle en appelsin end købe juice selvom det tager lidt længere tid.

Both can be accepted. Many learners will see the comma because it clearly marks the start of the subordinate clause.