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Con ese paso tan apresurado, estará cansado.

Con ese paso tan apresurado, estará cansado.
With that hurried pace, he must be tired.
From Lesson 174:Present probability (estará)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Con ese paso tan apresurado, estará cansado.

The English translation says "he must be tired," but estará is in the future tense. Why is that?
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"?
While muy apresurado (very hurried) would make sense, tan means "so." Using tan adds a bit more emphasis or emotion, almost like saying "with that step so hurried." In English, we usually smooth this out in translation to "with that hurried pace" or "with such a hurried pace."

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