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Caminamos a la derecha y estamos cada vez más desorientados por el cansancio.

Caminamos a la derecha y estamos cada vez más desorientados por el cansancio.
We walked to the right and are more and more disoriented because of exhaustion.
From Lesson 281:Causality with adjectives and nouns (por)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Caminamos a la derecha y estamos cada vez más desorientados por el cansancio.

Why do we use por here instead of porque to say "because of"?
In Spanish, when you want to say "because of" followed by a noun (like el cansancio, meaning "exhaustion"), you use por. You would only use porque if there was a full clause with a conjugated verb after it, like porque estamos cansados (because we are tired).
How does cada vez más translate to "more and more"?
Cada vez literally means "each time," so cada vez más translates to "each time more." This is the standard, most natural way to say "more and more" or "increasingly" in Spanish.
Why is there an el before cansancio if the English translation is just "exhaustion"?
Spanish generally requires definite articles (el, la, los, las) when talking about abstract concepts or nouns in a general sense. While English drops the article and just says "exhaustion," Spanish needs it: por el cansancio.
The English translation says "walked" in the past tense, but isn't caminamos present tense?
It can be both! For regular -ar and -ir verbs, the nosotros (we) form is exactly the same in the present tense and the simple past (preterite) tense. You have to rely on context to know that caminamos means "we walked" here.

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