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Let’s check this out:

A few things:

1) The term ‘habrá sido‘ is in the future perfect tense, meaning it hasn’t happened – the jackass who’s hitting on you is referring to the pirate who will lose this treasure. He hasn’t lot anything yet.
2) El pirata: although it has a feminine word ending [piratA] (which means they’re generally supposed to have the feminine article ‘la‘) but instead, it is paired with ‘el‘ when talking about a male pirate. If there were a female pirate, we’d put ‘la pirata‘. The adjective that follows this particular nouns pairs with the gender of the article (el/la) and not the feminine word ending.
3) The word ‘perdió‘ is in the preterite tense, which means it is in the past – a done deal.
4) We’ll have a blog post soon on the difference between ‘esta‘ ‘este‘ and ‘ese‘ in the future. For now, ‘este‘ means ‘this’ and that is all you need to know.

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