Breakdown of Τώρα που λειτουργεί ο τροχός αγγειοπλαστικής, αρχίζει η διαμόρφωση.
Questions & Answers about Τώρα που λειτουργεί ο τροχός αγγειοπλαστικής, αρχίζει η διαμόρφωση.
Here Τώρα που means now that.
It does not just mean a simple now. The whole phrase introduces a clause that gives the condition or situation under which the next action happens:
- Τώρα που λειτουργεί ο τροχός αγγειοπλαστικής = Now that the pottery wheel is working
In this use, που is functioning like a conjunction, not like the relative pronoun who/which/that.
λειτουργεί is the 3rd person singular present of λειτουργώ.
Here it means something like:
- works
- is functioning
- is operating
- is running
So ο τροχός λειτουργεί means the wheel is working / operating.
Greek uses the present tense here because it describes a current, ongoing state: the wheel is now in operation.
So the logic is:
- Now that the wheel is working
- the shaping begins
This is very natural in Greek, just as it is in English.