Minha filha não consegue engolir o remédio, então a médica sugeriu iogurte.

Because filha is a feminine noun, so the possessive has to agree with it.

• meu filho = my son
• minha filha = my daughter

In Portuguese, possessives usually agree with the thing possessed, not with the owner.

Não is the standard word for negation in Portuguese. It usually goes before the conjugated verb.

• consegue = manages to / is able to
• não consegue = does not manage to / cannot

So:

• Minha filha não consegue engolir o remédio = My daughter can’t swallow the medicine

Conseguir + infinitive often means to manage to, to succeed in, or to be able to in a practical sense.

• não consegue engolir = she can’t manage to swallow it

This is slightly different from não pode engolir, which usually means she is not allowed to swallow it or she is unable to due to some broader reason, depending on context.

So não consegue engolir is very natural here because it suggests difficulty actually doing it.

Because after conseguir, Portuguese commonly uses another verb in the infinitive.

Pattern:

• conseguir + infinitive

Examples:

• consigo entender = I can/manage to understand
• ela consegue dormir = she can/manage to sleep
• não consegue engolir = she can’t manage to swallow

Portuguese often uses definite articles more than English does.

• o remédio = the medicine

In this sentence, it refers to a specific medicine already understood in context, so o sounds natural.

English often drops the where Portuguese keeps it.

Here, então means so, therefore, or then.

It connects the two ideas:

• the daughter can’t swallow the medicine
• so the doctor suggested yogurt

It is very common in both speech and writing.

Because the sentence is referring to a female doctor.

• o médico = the male doctor / doctor
• a médica = the female doctor

In Brazilian Portuguese, job titles often change form to match gender when there is a distinct masculine/feminine pair.

Médica is completely normal and standard in Brazil for a female doctor.
You will definitely hear and read it.

Similarly:

• professor / professora
• advogado / advogada
• enfermeiro / enfermeira

After sugerir, Portuguese can use the thing suggested without an article, especially when it means as a solution or as an option.

• sugeriu iogurte = suggested yogurt

This sounds natural as a general recommendation.

If you said sugeriu o iogurte, it could sound more like a specific yogurt already known in the conversation.

Yes, but the meaning shifts slightly.

• sugeriu iogurte = suggested yogurt, in a general sense
• sugeriu um iogurte = suggested a yogurt, one yogurt, or some yogurt as an item

In many contexts, sugeriu iogurte sounds more natural if the idea is simply use yogurt to help with the medicine.

Sugeriu is the third person singular preterite of sugerir.

• sugerir = to suggest
• sugeriu = suggested

It matches a médica because that is the subject of the second clause.

So:

• a médica sugeriu = the doctor suggested

Because Portuguese often omits subject pronouns when the verb form already makes the subject clear.

• sugeriu already tells you it is he/she/you (formal) in the past
• and the noun a médica is explicitly there anyway

So a médica sugeriu iogurte is fully natural and clear.

It is natural and appropriate here because the sentence joins two related clauses:

• Minha filha não consegue engolir o remédio
• então a médica sugeriu iogurte

The comma helps show the pause and the cause/result relationship.

The written sentence is already natural. In casual speech, someone might also say:

• Minha filha não consegue engolir o remédio, então a médica sugeriu iogurte.
• Minha filha não tá conseguindo engolir o remédio, então a médica sugeriu iogurte.

The second version is more conversational because não tá conseguindo is very common in speech.

Both can mean medicine, but they are used a bit differently.

• remédio = the everyday, common word
• medicamento = more formal, technical, or medical

In normal conversation, Brazilians very often say remédio.

In Brazilian Portuguese, iogurte is usually pronounced roughly like:

• yo-GOOR-chee or yo-GOOR-tee, depending on accent

A few helpful notes:

• the io- sounds like yo
• the stress is on gur
• the final te may sound softer in many Brazilian accents

Sometimes, but engolir is the most direct verb for to swallow.

Possible related verbs:

• tomar o remédio = to take the medicine
• engolir o remédio = to swallow the medicine

These are not identical:

• tomar focuses on taking it
• engolir focuses on physically swallowing it

Here, engolir is the better choice because the problem is specifically swallowing.

No. Filha simply means daughter. It can refer to a child, teenager, or adult daughter.

The rest of the sentence may make you imagine a younger child, but grammatically filha does not require that.