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O turista está desesperado e acaba por procurar o nosso alojamento.

O turista está desesperado e acaba por procurar o nosso alojamento.
The tourist is desperate and ends up looking for our accommodation.
From Lesson 198:Ending up doing something (acabar por)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O turista está desesperado e acaba por procurar o nosso alojamento.

How does acaba por procurar translate to "ends up looking for"?
The phrase acabar por followed by an infinitive verb (like procurar) is a common way to express that someone "ended up" doing something. While acabar alone usually means "to finish," adding the preposition por creates a phrase showing an action that happens as a final result.
Why is it está desesperado instead of é desesperado?
We use estar to describe temporary states, so está desesperado means the tourist is feeling desperate right now because of his situation. If we used ser, which describes permanent traits, it would imply he is just a naturally desperate person in life.
Why does the sentence use the masculine article o for turista, which ends in -a?
Nouns ending in -ista (like turista, dentista, or artista) use the exact same spelling for both men and women. We know this specific tourist is male because the sentence uses the masculine article o and the masculine adjective desesperado.
Why is there no word for "for" after procurar?
The verb procurar inherently means "to look for" or "to search for." Native English speakers often want to add a preposition after it to match the English translation, but in Portuguese, the "for" is already built into the verb.

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