Σήμερα είμαι πολύ πιεσμένος και δυσκολεύομαι να αντιμετωπίσω όλα αυτά τα email μαζί.

Σήμερα means today. Greek often puts time expressions near the beginning of the sentence to set the scene first. So Σήμερα είμαι... is a very natural way to say Today I am....

You could move it elsewhere, but the original order sounds completely normal and natural.

Πιεσμένος literally means pressed or under pressure, but in this context it means something like:

• stressed
• under a lot of pressure
• swamped
• overloaded

So είμαι πολύ πιεσμένος is a natural way to say I’m really under pressure today.

Greek often expresses states with είμαι + adjective, where English might use a different structure.

So:

• είμαι πιεσμένος = I’m under pressure / I’m stressed

This is more natural here than trying to say something like I have pressure. Greek does sometimes use noun-based expressions too, but είμαι πιεσμένος is very common and idiomatic.

Πιεσμένος is the masculine singular form, so it tells you the speaker is male, or at least grammatically male.

Other possible forms would be:

• πιεσμένη for a female speaker
• πιεσμένοι for a mixed group or masculine plural
• πιεσμένες for a feminine plural group

So if a woman were speaking, she would say:

Σήμερα είμαι πολύ πιεσμένη...

Δυσκολεύομαι means I have difficulty, I struggle, or I find it hard.

So:

• δυσκολεύομαι να... = I’m struggling to... / I find it hard to...

In this sentence:

• δυσκολεύομαι να αντιμετωπίσω... = I’m struggling to deal with...

It is a very useful everyday verb.

It has a middle/passive-style form, but here it does not mean passive in sense. This is common in Greek: some verbs use these endings but have an active meaning.

So even though δυσκολεύομαι looks like a passive-form verb, it simply means:

• I struggle
• I have difficulty

The dictionary form is also δυσκολεύομαι.

After δυσκολεύομαι, Greek uses να + subjunctive.

Here να αντιμετωπίσω uses the perfective stem, which presents the action as a whole: to handle / to deal with the emails as one overall task.

So:

• να αντιμετωπίσω = to deal with / handle them as a complete task
• να αντιμετωπίζω would sound more like to be dealing with them in an ongoing or repeated sense

In this sentence, the perfective form is the natural choice because the speaker means I’m having trouble handling all of these emails.

The verb αντιμετωπίζω can mean:

• face
• deal with
• handle
• confront

In this sentence, the best natural English sense is deal with or handle:

• να αντιμετωπίσω όλα αυτά τα email = to deal with all these emails

It is not dramatic here; it just means coping with a workload.

This is a very common Greek structure. Demonstratives usually go together with the definite article:

• αυτό το βιβλίο = this book
• αυτή η μέρα = this day
• αυτά τα email = these emails

So even though English just says these emails, Greek normally says the equivalent of these the emails in structure.

That is completely standard Greek.

It breaks down like this:

• όλα = all
• αυτά = these
• τα = the
• email = emails

So the whole phrase means:

• all these emails

The order is very natural in Greek: όλα αυτά τα email

Email is a loanword, and in modern Greek it is often left unchanged in form:

• singular: το email
• plural: τα email

So the article shows the number, while the noun itself may stay the same.

You may also see other versions in real life, such as emails or μέιλ, but τα email is very common and natural.

Μαζί literally means together, but here it means something more like:

• all at once
• all together
• in one go

So:

• όλα αυτά τα email μαζί = all these emails at once

It emphasizes that the speaker is overwhelmed by having to deal with the whole pile at the same time.

No, Greek word order is fairly flexible. The original sentence is very natural, but other orders are possible depending on emphasis.

For example, the original:

Σήμερα είμαι πολύ πιεσμένος και δυσκολεύομαι να αντιμετωπίσω όλα αυτά τα email μαζί.

puts the focus first on today and then on the speaker’s state.

Greek often changes word order to highlight different parts, but this version sounds smooth and idiomatic.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

SÍ-me-ra Í-me po-LÍ piez-MÉ-nos ke this-ko-LE-vo-me na anti-me-to-PÍ-so Ó-la af-TÁ ta Í-meil ma-ZÍ

A few notes:

• σήμερα sounds like SEE-me-ra, with stress on the first syllable
• δυσκολεύομαι has the stress on -λεύ-
• αντιμετωπίσω has the stress on -πί-
• email in Greek is commonly pronounced roughly like ee-MAIL

This is only approximate, but it should help you get started.