Μετά το ντους φόρεσα το μπουρνούζι, κάθισα στο σκαμπό και στέγνωσα τα μαλλιά μου με το πιστολάκι.

They are all in the aorist, first person singular.

In this sentence, the aorist shows a completed action in the past:

• φόρεσα = I put on
• κάθισα = I sat down / sat
• στέγνωσα = I dried

This is very common in storytelling when Greek lists one finished action after another.

Because the aorist of φοράω / φορώ usually refers to the single completed action of putting something on.

So:

• φοράω ένα μπουρνούζι = I wear / am wearing a bathrobe
• φόρεσα ένα μπουρνούζι = I put on a bathrobe

English often separates wear and put on, but Greek often uses the same verb with different tense/aspect.

Greek usually does not need a subject pronoun if the verb ending already makes the subject clear.

Here:

• φόρεσα
• κάθισα
• στέγνωσα

all clearly mean I because of the -α ending.

You can add εγώ for emphasis, but it is not necessary:

• Εγώ φόρεσα το μπουρνούζι = I put on the bathrobe

Both patterns exist, but μετά το ντους is very natural and common, especially in time expressions like after breakfast, after work, after the shower.

So:

• μετά το ντους
• μετά από το ντους

can both mean after the shower.

Also, ντους is an indeclinable loanword, so its form stays ντους.

Greek uses the definite article much more often than English.

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about specific, familiar things in the situation:

• the shower
• the bathrobe
• the stool
• the hair dryer

So even where English might sometimes sound lighter or less specific, Greek naturally keeps the article.

στο is the contraction of σε + το.

So:

• σε το σκαμπό → στο σκαμπό

The preposition σε is very common and can cover meanings like in, on, at, or to, depending on context.

Here, κάθισα στο σκαμπό means I sat on the stool.

In Greek, hair on the head is very often expressed as a plural noun:

• τα μαλλιά μου = my hair

That is completely normal Greek.

The singular μαλλί can mean things like:

• a single hair
• wool
• hair/fur as a material

So for someone’s hairstyle or head hair, τα μαλλιά is the usual choice.

Because Greek commonly uses a weak possessive pronoun after the noun:

• τα μαλλιά μου = my hair
• το σπίτι μου = my house
• η τσάντα σου = your bag

Literally, it is closer to the hair of mine, but in real Greek this is just the normal way to say my hair.

Notice that body parts in Greek usually keep the article:

• τα μαλλιά μου not normally just μαλλιά μου in a sentence like this.

Here με means with, and it introduces the instrument used to do the action.

So:

• στέγνωσα τα μαλλιά μου με το πιστολάκι = I dried my hair with the hair dryer

This is the standard way to express using something in Greek.

Πιστολάκι is the everyday Greek word for a hair dryer or blow dryer.

It comes from πιστόλι = pistol/gun, with the diminutive ending -άκι, because the shape suggests a little gun.

So literally it is something like little pistol, but in normal Greek it simply means hair dryer.

For English speakers, a helpful rule is:

• At the beginning of a word, μπ usually sounds like b

  • μπουρνούζι ≈ bournoozi

• In the middle of a word, μπ is often pronounced mb or a soft b

  • σκαμπό is often pronounced roughly like skambo

So μπ is one of the main ways Modern Greek writes a b sound.

Yes. Greek word order is more flexible than English word order.

This sentence is a natural narrative order:

1. Μετά το ντους
2. φόρεσα το μπουρνούζι
3. κάθισα στο σκαμπό
4. και στέγνωσα τα μαλλιά μου με το πιστολάκι

But Greek can move parts around for emphasis. For example:

• Μετά το ντους, κάθισα στο σκαμπό και στέγνωσα τα μαλλιά μου με το πιστολάκι.
• Τα μαλλιά μου τα στέγνωσα με το πιστολάκι.

The original version is just a straightforward, neutral way to tell the sequence of events.