Learn Hardcore Greek: Όσο κι αν προσπαθώ, η αποσυμφόρηση δεν τελειώνει και συσσωρεύονται πράγματα. - No matter how hard I try, decluttering never ends and things keep accumulating.

Breakdown of Όσο κι αν προσπαθώ, η αποσυμφόρηση δεν τελειώνει και συσσωρεύονται πράγματα.

What does Όσο κι αν mean here?

Όσο κι αν is a very common Greek pattern meaning something like:

So Όσο κι αν προσπαθώ means No matter how much I try.

A few similar patterns are:

The κι here is just a shortened form of και.

Why is it κι and not και?

In everyday Greek, κι is a very common shortened form of και.

So:

κι = and
but in expressions like όσο κι αν, it is best understood as part of a fixed pattern

Both και and κι can appear, but κι is especially common before a word starting with a vowel, like αν.

So:

mean the same thing, but όσο κι αν sounds more natural in ordinary speech.

Why is it προσπαθώ and not something like προσπαθήσω?