Αφού είσαι τόσο διστακτική, μίλα πρώτα μαζί μου και μετά με την προϊσταμένη.

That is a very common question. Αφού can mean two different things:

• after in a time sense
• since / because / given that in a reason sense

In this sentence, it means since / because:

Αφού είσαι τόσο διστακτική...
= Since you’re so hesitant...

So here it introduces the reason for the command that follows. It is not temporal.

Διστακτική is a feminine singular adjective. It agrees with the person being addressed, which is an implied you.

So the sentence is being said to one woman or girl.

• masculine: διστακτικός
• feminine: διστακτική

If you were speaking to a man, it would be:

Αφού είσαι τόσο διστακτικός...

Διστακτική usually means hesitant, unsure, or timid about acting/speaking.

It does not always mean full-on shy in the personality sense. It often describes someone who is wavering, not confident, or holding back in a specific situation.

So in this sentence, it suggests something like:

• hesitant
• unsure
• reluctant to speak directly

Because Greek usually doesn’t need the subject pronoun when the verb ending already shows the subject.

Here:

• είσαι = you are

So εσύ is understood automatically.

Greek often omits pronouns unless the speaker wants extra emphasis or contrast.

Μίλα is the imperative form, singular, from μιλάω / μιλώ.

It means:

• speak
• talk

So the speaker is giving a direct instruction to one person.

Because it is singular, it matches the earlier είσαι.

Both are possible imperatives, but they are not identical.

• μίλα = present imperative
• μίλησε = aorist imperative

A simple way to think about it:

• μίλα focuses more on the activity/process of talking
• μίλησε can sound more like go and speak / say it / have the talk

In this sentence, μίλα sounds very natural because the idea is talk first with me, then with the supervisor.

Because Greek has more than one natural way to express with.

• μαζί μου = with me
• με την προϊσταμένη = with the supervisor

With a pronoun, μαζί μου is very common and natural.
With a noun, Greek often simply uses με + accusative:

• με την προϊσταμένη

You could also say:

μαζί με την προϊσταμένη

but here that would be less economical. The sentence is perfectly natural as it stands.

Not exactly.

• με is the basic preposition with
• μαζί literally means something like together, and in many contexts it combines with pronouns or with με

For example:

• μαζί μου = with me
• μαζί με τον φίλο μου = together with my friend / with my friend

In this sentence, μαζί μου adds a natural sense of talk with me directly first.

It is in the accusative singular feminine.

That is because με takes the accusative.

So:

• nominative: η προϊσταμένη
• accusative: την προϊσταμένη

The noun προϊσταμένη itself looks the same here, but the article changes from η to την, and that shows the case clearly.

No. In μαζί μου, the μου is the weak genitive pronoun.

This is one of those patterns you mainly learn as a fixed structure:

• μαζί μου = with me
• μαζί σου = with you
• μαζί του / της = with him / her

So this is different from με + accusative noun.

Προϊσταμένη means female supervisor, female manager, or sometimes female superior/boss, depending on context.

It is a fairly standard workplace word.

The masculine form is:

• προϊστάμενος

So the sentence specifically refers to a woman in a supervisory role.

They mark the sequence:

• πρώτα = first
• μετά = then / afterwards

So the structure is:

μίλα πρώτα μαζί μου και μετά με την προϊσταμένη
= talk first with me and then with the supervisor

This πρώτα ... και μετά ... pattern is extremely common in Greek.

Because the first part is a subordinate clause giving the reason:

Αφού είσαι τόσο διστακτική, ...

Then the main clause follows:

μίλα πρώτα μαζί μου και μετά με την προϊσταμένη.

So the comma separates:

• the reason/background from
• the main instruction

This punctuation is normal and helpful.

Only the adjective would need to change:

Αφού είσαι τόσο διστακτικός, μίλα πρώτα μαζί μου και μετά με την προϊσταμένη.

So:

• to a woman: διστακτική
• to a man: διστακτικός

Everything else can stay the same.

Those two dots are a diaeresis. They show that the ι is pronounced separately and does not combine with the previous vowel into a single written vowel unit.

So προϊσταμένη is pronounced with separate syllables at the start:

προ-ι-...

not as if οι were acting as one unit.

This is a spelling feature you will see in words where Greek wants to make the vowel separation clear.