Thread: Particle "же"

Originally Posted by Doomer

This is actually quite opposite
же makes it more polite not more offensive or strong

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

That's surprising to me!

That's surprissing to me too! "же" here represents the degree of emotion:

Originally Posted by Larusja

5. Же в восклицаниях.

You can add же in emotional sentences like too or so.

Какой же ты счастливый!
You are so happy!

Как долго же мы ехали!
Road took so much time!

while the type of emotion: politeness, offensiveness or sorry; is in the way of how you say it (intonation) only.