"Na pewno nie znasz tego zespołu."
Translation:Surely you do not know this band.
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The Hover Hints are really confusing here: apparently na pewno can mean Surely... (as given above) - or Are you sure... ?, which is practically the opposite (or maybe just incorrect?).
Please elucidate!
Maybe there would be contexts when it would mean that, but not here. Actually using "really" would make sense only if you changed the sentence into a question caused by your surprise - that is my feel.
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If I heard. "Surely you do not know this band" I would think it was a question, probably asked because of "surprise that you knew this band" and wanted confirmation. If I wanted to emphasise the "not knowing" I would say Definately, you do not know this band. Definately in this instance meaning - I am sure Almost every sentence that I can think of begining with "surely" is a question.
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No it's just a statement where the speaker is surprised. Just because you are fishing for confirmation from the listener doesn't mean that what your saying is a question.
One of the hints for 'na pewno' is 'are you sure that'. So shouldn't this be allowed: 'Are you sure that you don't know this band?'
The hints are course-wide or even two-courses wide (PL4EN & EN4PL). They are not designed for specific sentences. Often some hints will not be applicable to the given sentence.
The simple reason this hint doesn't work here is that there's no question mark, so this is not a question, and you made it a question. I agree that just changing the final punctuation mark would change the English translation to the one that you wrote.
