Αυτές τις μέρες προσπαθώ να κοιμάμαι νωρίς, γιατί έχω πολύ άγχος.

It means these days, lately, or at the moment.

In this sentence, it does not mean literally on these specific days as much as it means during this period of my life right now.

So:

• Αυτές τις μέρες προσπαθώ... = These days / Lately, I’m trying...

It is a very common everyday Greek expression.

Because in standard Greek, a demonstrative like αυτές often appears together with the definite article.

So the pattern is:

• αυτές = these
• τις = the (feminine plural accusative)
• μέρες = days

Together:

• Αυτές τις μέρες = these days

This is the normal structure in Greek:

• αυτό το βιβλίο = this book
• αυτή η γυναίκα = this woman
• αυτές τις μέρες = these days

English does not use both these and the together, but Greek often does.

They all have to agree with each other in gender, number, and case.

Here, μέρες is:

• feminine
• plural
• accusative

So the other words must match:

• αυτές = feminine plural accusative
• τις = feminine plural accusative article
• μέρες = feminine plural accusative noun

This agreement is a basic feature of Greek grammar.

Because Greek often uses the accusative for expressions of time duration or time period.

So Αυτές τις μέρες is an accusative time expression meaning something like:

• during these days
• these days
• lately

This is very common in Greek. Similar examples:

• όλη μέρα = all day
• κάθε εβδομάδα = every week
• αυτή τη νύχτα = tonight / this night

So the accusative here is not a direct object; it is a time expression.

Να introduces a subordinate verb, often where English would use an infinitive.

English says:

• I try to sleep early

Greek does not normally use an infinitive in that way, so it says:

• προσπαθώ να κοιμάμαι νωρίς

Literally, this is closer to:

• I try that I sleep early

But natural English is simply:

• I try to sleep early

So after verbs like προσπαθώ, θέλω, μπορώ, πρέπει, Greek usually uses να + verb.

Yes, κοιμάμαι looks like a middle/passive form, but its meaning here is active: I sleep.

Some Greek verbs have middle/passive-type forms but are not passive in meaning. Κοιμάμαι is one of them.

So:

• κοιμάμαι = I sleep
• not I am slept or anything passive like that

This is something learners just have to get used to: form and meaning do not always match in the way you might expect from English.

This is about aspect, which is very important in Greek.

• να κοιμάμαι = imperfective aspect
• να κοιμηθώ = perfective aspect

The difference is roughly:

• κοιμάμαι focuses on the action as a repeated/habitual process
• κοιμηθώ focuses more on a single completed event, often to fall asleep

In this sentence, the speaker means:

• I’m trying to sleep early these days
• in other words, I’m trying to make it a habit

So να κοιμάμαι fits better because it sounds habitual or ongoing.

If you said προσπαθώ να κοιμηθώ νωρίς, it would sound more like:

• I’m trying to fall asleep early

That is possible in some contexts, but it is a slightly different idea.

In natural English, it often corresponds to I go to bed early or I get to sleep early.

Literally, κοιμάμαι means sleep, but in sentences like this, Greek often uses it where English would prefer:

• go to bed early
• get to sleep early

So a natural translation of the full sentence could be:

• These days I’m trying to go to bed early because I’m very stressed.

or

• These days I’m trying to sleep early because I’m under a lot of stress.

Νωρίς means early.

It is an adverb, so it describes the verb:

• κοιμάμαι νωρίς = I sleep early / go to bed early

Its position is normal and natural. Greek word order is more flexible than English, but this placement is very common.

You could also hear different word orders depending on emphasis, but κοιμάμαι νωρίς is straightforward and neutral.

Because γιατί έχω πολύ άγχος is the reason clause:

• because I have a lot of stress
• because I’m very stressed

The comma helps separate the main statement from the explanation.

Greek punctuation often uses a comma before γιατί when it introduces a reason, especially in normal written style.

Yes, γιατί can mean both:

• because
• why

The meaning depends on context.

Here it means because because it introduces the reason:

• γιατί έχω πολύ άγχος = because I have a lot of stress

As a question word, it would be:

• Γιατί έχεις άγχος; = Why are you stressed?

So learners need to rely on sentence structure and punctuation to tell which meaning it has.

Because άγχος is usually treated as an uncountable abstract noun here, like stress in English.

So:

• έχω πολύ άγχος = I have a lot of stress / I’m very stressed

Why not the others?

• πολύ άγχος: normal for an uncountable amount
• πολλά άγχη: possible in some contexts, but much less natural here; it would mean something more like many anxieties/stresses
• το άγχος: would mean the stress, which sounds more specific

So έχω πολύ άγχος is the most natural everyday phrasing.

Here πολύ works as a quantity word meaning a lot of.

In this use, it stays πολύ before singular uncountable nouns such as:

• πολύ νερό = a lot of water
• πολύ χρόνο = a lot of time
• πολύ άγχος = a lot of stress

So it is not behaving like a normal adjective that has to fully agree the same way in English learners might expect.

Yes, very natural.

A Greek speaker could easily say:

• Αυτές τις μέρες προσπαθώ να κοιμάμαι νωρίς, γιατί έχω πολύ άγχος.

It sounds everyday, conversational, and idiomatic.

A very natural English rendering would be:

• These days I’m trying to sleep early because I’m really stressed.
• Lately I’ve been trying to go to bed early because I’m under a lot of stress.

Άγχος is pronounced roughly like ANG-hos, with the stress on the first syllable.

A few useful notes:

• ά = stressed a
• γχ is not pronounced like English gch
• it is usually pronounced something like ngh or nkh, depending on the surrounding sounds and accent

So for many learners, a helpful approximation is:

• AHNG-hos

Not perfect, but close enough as a starting point.

Yes.

• μέρες is the everyday spoken form
• ημέρες is the fuller form

So both are correct:

• Αυτές τις μέρες
• Αυτές τις ημέρες

The version with μέρες is much more common in everyday speech.