Learn Spanish (Latin America): Con ese paso tan apresurado, estará cansado. - With that hurried pace, he must be tired.

In Spanish, the future tense is frequently used to make a guess or state an assumption about the present. Even though estará literally means "will be," using it in this context means you are guessing about his current state. In English, we naturally express this by saying "he must be" or "he is probably."

How do we know it means "he" must be tired, rather than "she" or "you"?

The verb estará is the third-person singular form, which can apply to él (he), ella (she), or usted (you, formal). We know the subject is masculine because the adjective cansado ends in -o. If it were about a woman, the sentence would end with cansada.

Doesn't the word paso usually mean "I pass"?

It can be the "yo" (I) form of the verb pasar (to pass), but here it is a masculine noun meaning "step" or "pace." The demonstrative adjective ese (that) right before it is your clue that it is acting as a noun in this sentence.

Why does the sentence use tan instead of muy for "hurried"?