"Ele olha para você."

Translation: He looks at you.

[jgritty]

How would you say, "He looks for you"?

[WandyT]

Hi jgritty!

Look for = procurar

He looks for you = Ele procura você or Ele te procura

[Gaspard]

I think "Ele procura por você" is a more commonly used phrase. I don't think the preposition is required and I'm not sure if there are rules governing this. Any ideas?

[cinthiia_mc]

Both are right. Remember that the gerund is very used in this case too, so: Ele está procurando você, ele está procurando por você, ele está te procurando are all right.

[Silascou14]

Ele procura você is the most commonly used form. Think of ti like this: people always tend to use shorter sentences. Ele procura por você is also used frequntly, so saying it won't sound strange at all...

[RyanBerbatov]

Ele te procura (less common), ele procura você (common), ele procura por você(more commonly and is better), i'm brazilian

[JCMcGee]

Aaaahhh....one min para means "Stop"....and what does "He looks to you" mean?
Should it translate as "He looks at you"?

[jvitti624]

I would say "he looks to you" suggests that he is not literally viewing you, but figuratively depending on you. (e.g., lyrics from Les Miserables, Valjean to the foreman: "I look to you to sort this out, please be as patient as you can!").

That said, "he looks to you" is not accepted as of Sept 2018 ;)

[Jackiecane29]

Why is "He looks for you" incorrect?

[fqsama]

I think the verb "olhar" relates to seeing visually, which is different from the concept of looking for something i.e. seeking/searching. As commented above, word "procurar" is more accurate for that

[G_Bosc79]

I agree, because in English you could look for someone to come around the corner, or you could look literally for him - he can't find something, okay, he will look for you. Would these meanings be served by procurar?

[4ndr01d3]

what about "he sees you"?

[RyanBerbatov]

ele vê você

[Byanka942479]

"He looks for you" is wrong?

[Paulenrique]

Yes. That would be "ele procura (por) você".

[mjjf26]

How would you say "He looks toward you"?

[PhillipBro6]

Ele olha em sua direção.

[Verbum_Facere]

Yeah 'para' confused me in this one since I usually read it as "for", but I guess it can be "at" as well. By the way, would 'Ele olha a você' be wrong (does olha just work with para usually)?

[Paulenrique]

"olhar a" is weird. "Olhar para" is common.

[geekmeisteraz]

Does olhar require a preposition? I thought I saw other examples where a preposition was not used.

[Paulenrique]

The preposition is optional.