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Because ορόφου is in the genitive case. In this sentence, υπεύθυνος ορόφου means the person responsible for the floor or the floor supervisor/warden.
Greek often uses the genitive where English uses of:
- ο υπεύθυνος ορόφου = the person in charge of the floor
- literally: the responsible one of the floor
So όροφος is the basic dictionary form, but after υπεύθυνος you need the genitive: ορόφου.
Greek does not always repeat the article in expressions like this.
Here, ορόφου functions closely with υπεύθυνος to make a title-like phrase:
- ο υπεύθυνος ορόφου
This is very natural in Greek. It works a bit like:
- director of sales
- head of department
- floor manager
You could think of it as a compact job-title structure. The article appears before the main noun υπεύθυνος, not necessarily before the genitive noun that follows.