Αφού δεις την ταινία, θέλω να μου πεις τη γνώμη σου.

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Breakdown of Αφού δεις την ταινία, θέλω να μου πεις τη γνώμη σου.

• να: to
• σου: your
• μου: me

Questions & Answers about Αφού δεις την ταινία, θέλω να μου πεις τη γνώμη σου.

What exactly does αφού mean here? I learned it as “since/because”, but the translation is “after/once”.

Αφού has two main uses:

1. Temporal (time) – “after, once, when (you’ve finished)”

   • That’s the meaning in this sentence:
     Αφού δεις την ταινία = After you see the movie / Once you’ve seen the movie.

2. Causal (reason) – “since, because”

   • e.g. Αφού είσαι εδώ, έλα να φάμε. = Since you’re here, come eat.

When αφού is followed by a verb in the subjunctive (like δεις) and refers to the future, it usually has the temporal meaning: after / once.
When it refers to a present or past fact with an indicative verb (e.g. είσαι, ήρθες), it often means since / because.

Why is it δεις and not βλέπεις after αφού?

Δεις is the aorist subjunctive of βλέπω (“to see”). Greek often uses the subjunctive aorist after conjunctions like αφού, όταν, μόλις when talking about a single, completed future event.

• Αφού δεις την ταινία = After you have seen the movie (one complete action in the future)
• If you said αφού βλέπεις την ταινία, it would sound wrong or very odd here; βλέπεις is present indicative, not the right form for this kind of future-time clause.

So:

• δεις = “see (once, as a whole)” in a future / hypothetical way
• βλέπεις = “you see / you are watching” (present, ongoing, factual)

The pattern “[αφού/όταν/μόλις] + subjunctive” is very common for future time in Greek.