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Υπάλληλος means employee / clerk / staff member, and the noun itself can refer to either a man or a woman.
- ο υπάλληλος = the male employee / clerk
- η υπάλληλος = the female employee / clerk
So here, ο shows that the speaker is referring to a man.
Also, Greek uses the definite article much more often than English, so ο υπάλληλος is completely normal where English might simply say the clerk or the employee.
Είπε is the aorist form of λέω (to say / to tell).
So:
- λέω = I say / I am saying
- είπα = I said
- είπε = he/she/it said
This is an irregular verb, so the past form does not look very much like the present stem λέ-.
In this sentence:
- Ο υπάλληλος είπε... = The clerk said...