Он всё равно парился, даром что потоотделение стало сильнее.

Here всё равно means all the same / anyway / still.

So Он всё равно парился means something like He was still sweating / he was sweating anyway, despite whatever was mentioned or implied before.

A learner should be careful not to translate всё равно word-for-word as everything equally. In modern Russian, it often works as a fixed expression meaning:

• anyway
• still
• it makes no difference

In this sentence, it has the still / anyway sense.

The standard spelling is всё равно with ё.

• всё = everything
• все = all people / all things depending on context

In everyday Russian texts, ё is often written as е, so you may often see все равно, but it is normally understood as всё равно.

For a learner, it is useful to remember the phrase as a fixed expression: всё равно.

Парился is the past tense, masculine singular form of париться.

This verb can mean different things depending on context:

1. to steam oneself, especially in a bathhouse
2. to be hot / sweat / swelter
3. colloquially, to worry / stress over something

In this sentence, because the second clause mentions потоотделение (perspiration/sweating), the physical meaning is intended: he was sweating / feeling overheated.

So this is not the slang meaning he was stressing out, even though that is also a very common meaning of париться in spoken Russian.

Парился breaks down like this:

• пар- = verb stem
• -и- / -ть = infinitive ending in париться
• -ся = reflexive marker
• past tense masculine singular ending gives парился

So:

• париться = infinitive
• он парился = he was sweating / he was steaming / he was stressing

Because the subject is он, the past tense must be masculine singular: парился.

Compare:

• он парился
• она парилась
• они парились

Many Russian verbs appear with -ся, and the reflexive ending does not always mean a literal oneself in English.

With париться, the reflexive form is just the normal dictionary form for these meanings. Depending on context, it can mean:

• to steam oneself
• to swelter / sweat
• to stress out

So you should learn париться as a whole verb, not try to force a literal translation like to steam oneself every time.

In this sentence, -ся is simply part of the verb париться.

Both could relate to sweating, but they are not exactly the same.

• потеть / потел = to sweat, fairly direct and neutral
• париться / парился = can suggest being overheated, sweltering, steaming, being in sweaty discomfort, and can sound more colloquial

So парился adds a slightly more vivid or conversational flavor than the more straightforward потел.

A learner should note that Russian often has several near-synonyms, and the choice affects tone, not just basic meaning.

Даром что means although / even though / despite the fact that.

It introduces a concessive idea: the second clause gives a fact that might make you expect something different, but the first clause still remains true.

So:

• Он всё равно парился, даром что потоотделение стало сильнее.

means roughly:

• He was still sweating, even though perspiration had become stronger.

More naturally in English, depending on the intended meaning, you might also think of it as:

• He was still overheated, even though his perspiration had increased.

This expression is somewhat idiomatic, so it is best learned as a chunk: даром что = although / even though.

Yes, by itself даром often means:

• for free
• in vain

But in даром что, it is part of a fixed expression with a different meaning: although / even though.

This is common in languages: a word may have one basic meaning on its own, but a multi-word expression develops a special meaning.

So here you should not interpret даром separately. Treat даром что as one unit.

Даром что is understandable and not rare, but it is less neutral than simple хотя.

Compared with хотя, даром что can sound:

• more idiomatic
• slightly literary or expressive
• sometimes a bit old-fashioned or stylistically marked, depending on context

So a learner should definitely recognize it, but in everyday neutral Russian, хотя is usually the safer choice if you want to say although.

Потоотделение means perspiration, sweating, or more literally the secretion of sweat.

It is a more technical or formal noun than simply talking about пот (sweat).

Structure:

• пот = sweat
• отделение = separation / secretion / discharge

Together, потоотделение is the physiological process of producing sweat.

So the sentence mixes a more colloquial verb (парился) with a more formal noun (потоотделение), which may sound a little stylistically noticeable.

This is a very common grammar point.

After стать (to become), Russian can use:

1. a short-form or adjective/noun in instrumental in some structures
2. an adverb or comparative when describing a change in degree

Here сильнее is the comparative form meaning stronger / more strongly.

So:

• потоотделение стало сильнее = the perspiration became stronger / increased

This is about a change in intensity, not about assigning a simple permanent quality.

Compare:

• Он стал сильным. = He became strong.
• Боль стала сильнее. = The pain became stronger.
• Потоотделение стало сильнее. = The perspiration became stronger / more intense.

So сильнее is exactly what Russian normally uses here.

Russian usually prefers the simple comparative form when possible.

• сильнее = stronger
• более сильный / более сильным = more strong, a heavier and less natural way in many contexts

With things like pain, wind, symptoms, or sweating, Russian very naturally says:

• боль стала сильнее
• ветер стал сильнее
• потоотделение стало сильнее

So сильнее is the most natural choice.

There are two verbs:

1. парился from париться
2. стало from стать

парился

This is past tense, and париться is imperfective.

Here the imperfective suggests an ongoing state or process:

• he was sweating / was sweltering

стало

This is past tense from стать, which is usually perfective.

Here it marks a change:

• became stronger

So the sentence combines:

• an ongoing situation: он парился
• with a completed change: потоотделение стало сильнее

That combination is very natural in Russian.

Because даром что потоотделение стало сильнее is a subordinate clause.

Russian normally separates this kind of concessive clause with a comma, just as English separates clauses like although... or even though....

So the structure is:

• main clause: Он всё равно парился
• subordinate concessive clause: даром что потоотделение стало сильнее

Hence the comma.

Yes. A close neutral version would be:

• Он всё равно парился, хотя потоотделение стало сильнее.

That would be easier and more standard for many learners.

The difference is mostly stylistic:

• хотя = neutral, common, straightforward
• даром что = more idiomatic, more expressive, somewhat marked

So if you are speaking or writing and are unsure, хотя is usually safer.

Yes, Russian can sometimes omit subject pronouns when the subject is clear from context, especially in conversation.

So depending on context, you could get:

• Всё равно парился, даром что потоотделение стало сильнее.

However, keeping он makes the subject explicit and can add clarity or contrast.

Russian uses pronouns less often than English, but not never. If the speaker wants to be clear about he, using он is perfectly natural.

The word order is natural, but Russian has some flexibility.

Current order:

• Он всё равно парился, даром что потоотделение стало сильнее.

This presents:

1. the main fact first
2. then the concessive comment

You could move elements around for emphasis, for example:

• Даром что потоотделение стало сильнее, он всё равно парился.

That would foreground the although clause more strongly.

So the current word order is not the only possible one, but it is perfectly normal.

Not exactly.

• всё ещё = still, focusing mainly on continuation through time
• всё равно = still / anyway / all the same, often with a sense of despite that

In this sentence, всё равно is better because the sentence has a concessive idea: despite the fact that...

If you said он всё ещё парился, it would stress that the action was continuing.
If you say он всё равно парился, it suggests despite this, he was still sweating anyway.

So they can overlap, but they are not identical.

It is understandable, but a learner may notice a stylistic mix:

• парился is fairly colloquial
• потоотделение is more technical or formal

That does not make the sentence wrong, but it can sound a bit mixed in register.

A more uniform version might be:

• Он всё равно потел, хотя потоотделение усилилось.
• Он всё равно парился, хотя пот стал идти сильнее.

But depending on the source text, the mixed style may be intentional.

For a learner, the main point is: the sentence is grammatical, but the vocabulary choices belong to slightly different stylistic levels.