"To chyba nie jest dobry pomysł."

Translation: This is probably not a good idea.

[Konrad-Michal]

Dlaczego nie This isn't probably a good idea?

[Jellei]

Skonsultowałem z trzema native'ami i wszyscy stwierdzili, że to nie jest poprawne zdanie.

[Konrad-Michal]

OK, dzięki!

[Simone76]

Proszę skonsultować to tłumaczenie: "Probably it's not a good idea." :)

[Jellei]

Jak dla mnie brzmi dobrze, dodałem :)

[Simone76]

Dzięki, takie Duolingo to ja rozumiem ;)

Jednakże to otwiera kilka nowych możliwości, jak potwierdza mój słownik https://www.diki.pl/slownik-angielskiego?q=chyba i podpowiada mi moja intuicja, bardziej naturalnie po ichniemu będzie: "I guess it's not a good idea."

[Stewart288923]

I guess it is not a good idea (?)

[Jellei]

Sure, added.

[AdamMlodoz]

Chyba really can't mean 'maybe'?

[Jellei]

I would say that "chyba" is stronger than "maybe" (like 80-90% chances vs 50% or slightly more), and the translation I see here has "probably" which looks like a perfect fit. But then the English wiktionary gives 'perhaps/maybe' as its translations...

[karaluh]

So what is the conclusion, should "maybe" be accepted as a correct translation?

[Jellei]

I think the conclusion is that "maybe" is "może" and "być może", it's not strong enough.

[zagadka314]

haha that's funny, I was just talking to someone about chyba in English. She is Polish and said it is closer to 50% and I thought it was like 80%.

[PeggyKraus1]

The hint says chyba also means "I do not think so/that". Could this not be translated then to I don't think that this is a good idea?

[Jellei]

It is hard to translate, so yeah, I guess we should accept such 'grammatically different' translations, especially that this comes from the hints. Added now.

[MajikRuth]

Would this be the only time that "chyba" might translate to "I think"? Are there other situations where it might be used interchangeably with "myślę"?

[CelioFM]

What about "Possibly it´s not a good idea" ?

[Jellei]

I was told it's rather a strange word order.

[cuidifengling]

Czy jest poprawne to stanie "To może nie jest dobry pomysł", dzienki.

[Jellei]

That sounds rather strange.

Although "Może to nie jest dobry pomysł", especially if you add something like "Może to jednak nie jest dobry pomysł", would work as "Maybe this is not a good idea after all" (you considered it further and it doesn't sound like a good idea anymore).

P.S. "Dzięki" :)

[cuidifengling]

Dzięki :). So you mean even if i correct it as "Może to jednak nie jest dobry pomysł", it is still strange for you , prawda?

[Jellei]

No, that one is correct, but it needs some context and it's not exactly the same sentence.