Phrase · 🕵️ Speculating about the past

No contesta: habrá salido.

He isn't answering: he must have gone out.

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Why every word is where it is

Noadverbnotcontesta2verbanswerscontestar · present · 3rd sing.:habrá1verbwill have (= must have)haber · future · 3rd sing.salido1verbgone outsalir · participle · past · masc. · sing..

contesta → habrá: tense

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

1
Future perfect of probability: habrá salido = he has probably gone out. A guess about the recent past, not the future. Future perfect and the conditional of probability →
2
contestar = to answer (the phone, a message, a question).

Variations

No contesta: debe de haber salido.
No contesta: seguro que salió.