Breakdown of Nós acabamos por deixar a logística para amanhã.
nós
we
para
to / for
amanhã
tomorrow
deixar
to leave (behind) / to quit / to let (allow)
acabar por
to end up (doing)
a logística
the logistics
Questions & Answers about Nós acabamos por deixar a logística para amanhã.
Does acabamos mean "we end up" (present) or "we ended up" (past)?
In European Portuguese, acabamos (without an accent) is the present tense: "we end up". If it were the past tense ("we ended up"), it would have an acute accent on the second "a": acabámos. This is a very helpful trick to tell them apart in writing!
Why do we need the word por before deixar?
The verb acabar alone usually means "to finish". But when you pair it with the preposition por and an infinitive verb, it creates the fixed phrase acabar por, which means "to end up doing" something. So, acabamos por deixar translates to "we end up leaving".
Since the subject is Nós, why don't we use the Personal Infinitive deixarmos here?
Because acabar por deixar acts as a single verbal expression where both verbs share the exact same subject. When the subject is the same and you're using a helper-style construction like this, the second verb just stays in its basic, uninflected infinitive form (deixar). You usually use the Personal Infinitive to introduce a new subject or to clarify who is acting, which is already obvious here from acabamos.
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