Both ね and でしょう can be used to form tag questions to confirm an opinion like
so:

> 1) 疲れたでしょう。 (more of a guess based on evidence / polite)
>
> 2) 疲れたね。 (more forceful / the speaker is more certain)
>
> 3) 疲れたでしょうね。 (forceful, but polite)

For the purposes of these questions you can imagine that these sentences are
spoken to someone who has just done something physically exerting (like moving
boxes for 7 hours).

Am I right about these guesses? Can anyone elaborate more?
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What's the difference between ね and でしょう for tag questions?
When a speaker says `でしょう`, he or she puts more weights on the guess or
asking.

When a speaker says `ね`, he or she expects an agreement from the listener. It
is slightly more assertive (or _forceful_ as you say) than `でしょう`. If you want
to add the politeness, you can rephrase it by saying `疲れましたね。`.

However, `でしょうね` is more assertive than the two above, and the speaker might
even not expect the listener to respond.

Note that `疲れたでしょうね。` is slightly unnatural. I would say `お疲れでしょうね。`.
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I am at beginner-intermediate level of Japanese, so please do not consider
this as an authoritative answer. It is **completely based on inference derived
by me**. However, I have presented my arguments in support of my answer.

It is clear that でしょう when used with rising ending intonation, it would mean,
that the person is seeking for hearer's agreement, on something. E.g.
君も行くでしょう? (You will go, won't you?)

Whereas, ね is also used to get the hearer's agreement, with the intonation is
falling one.

> ね of Agreement and ね of Confirmation

Now before we get into the difference we should first understand what,
actually this agreement ね is!, as ね can also mean seeking for confirmation
(Intonation is rising), which would mean "I assume XYZ can you confirm it?",
whereas, agreement ね is a speaker's strong impression of something, and he
wants the hearer to agree on it, it is not seeking for confirmation, but
agreement (hereinafter for the sake of brevity referred to as, agreement ね).

E.g. あなたは学校生ですね (with rising ね can mean, that the speaker **assumes** that the
hearer is a student, like he saw a school bag/clothes and assumes it, and
wants to confirm it.

Whereas, one school student asks another student to rent a motorcycle, and the
other can reply by saying まだ学校生ね. (This form of ね would mean, I am still
student, right?). Here it can be seen that, this case is not that the person
wants to assume he just wants an agreement.

> ね of Agreement as per me

Now, coming to the main point, this 2nd ね, the ね of agreement, as per my book
(A Dict. of Basic Japanese Grammar), is used when there is some shared
knowledge.

**My Inference, only, from hereon: Please don't take it as an Authoritative
text**

That is to say, both should have the same knowledge/experience on the
act/scenario/situation (topic of the conversation). That is, both should have
experienced the same and have a common knowledge, such that both the person
are able/in a position to relate it.

E.g. A and B are walking together, they see a cute dog. Now, in this scenario,
both/either can use the seeking-agreement ね and say かわいい犬ね? As, the other
person has also seen that, i.e. there exists a shared knowledge/experience
which was gathered by watching that dog 犬 and the other can now relate it.

Whereas, If B over here did not see the dog 犬, A cannot say, かわいい犬ね? (Using
agreement ね) as, B cannot relate which dog/or what is A talking about.

Further, as per me it is not necessary that the other person has in reality,
i.e. literally, experienced the same situation/action/scenario, using ね in
such situations, can mean that you can relate to it even without actually
experiencing/having knowledge about that.

E.g. A tells B, I was not able to go to Japan to witness the New Year's
celebration. Wherein, B replies, 残念ね (with agreement ね), and A replies 残念です.
Over here, if we look at the scenario, it was not that B was not able to go to
Japan for the New Year's Celebration, or even in first place planned to. So
here, we can see that B tried to relate the situation, in which A was in, in
order to empathize with A. (In short saying I can understand, I feel bad for
you).

However, as I can't come up with more examples, as I am still at budding
stage, so I am unclear to what extent this "Trying to/Able to relate with no
experience/ knowledge scenario/action, by using agreement ね, applies".

The points below are purely out of inferences derived from looking at various
sentences using the agreement ね:

Moreover, as per my inference, this scenario/action/situation in relation to
which agreement ね is used, can be in past, whereas, the statement for present,
in relation to that past scenario/action/situation. E.g. A and B, are planning
to a dinner, where B says we will eat a lot tonight, and when they go out in
the night, B before starting the dinner can say たくさん食べようね (using agreement ね),
over here we can infer that, such usage of ね, is can imply there that there
exists a relation to the shared knowledge about the past
scenario/action/situation (which is, the conversation, i.e. both of them have
this shared knowledge/experience).

Thus, as per my inference, agreement ね can only be used, when the speaker and
the hearer, both of them find a relation to the shared knowledge/experience of
a action/situation/scenario.

So, **I suppose** , though I am not confident at all, that only in case that
they can relate it with a shared knowledge/experience of a
action/scenario/situation in regard to which statement has been made, then
agreement ね will be used.

> でしょう

Now, coming to でしょう, the rising intonation, at the end, tells us that the
speaker is asking for agreement (hereinafter, agreement でしょう) and not that he
wanted to mean "probably".

As per, [Misaさん](https://youtu.be/bG66faxJeSY?t=389)

Agreement でしょう, can be in those cases instead of the Agreement ね, when the
speaker is having prior experience of a thing, and when the speakers makes the
hearer experience the same, agreement でしょう can be used. E.g. A and B go to the
restaurant, where A knows and has told B that tasty food is available, so when
both eat, A can say to B, おいしいでしょう? (with agreement でしょう). Click on the link,
there are 3-4 other examples referring to same scenario.

My own Inference derived from the same (Not sure):

Now, if we look at the above example, we can clearly see that, since the
speaker focused not on the point of shared knowledge/experience which they
acquired when both ate the tasty food, and on the fact that prior to that,
i.e. him knowing that the food was tasty here. Thus, it can be inferred that
in those cases where there isn't any shared knowledge/experience of a
action/scenario/situation or it is not the intention to bring it up, でしょう
would apply.

(Not Sure- Self-made example) E.g. A Husband, suddenly plans to go to a
Wedding Anniversary, and informs him about the wedding and says, 君も行くでしょう,
over here as shared knowledge/information with the wife that she would have to
go, as per my inference, でしょう would be used, as he really wants his wife to
accompany him.

> Coming to the Question

(Self-made example) As per the above-based inference and reasoning of mine,
which I am still not sure about, 疲れたね, could have been used in those
situations wherein, there exists a shared knowledge/experience about a
action/situation/scenario to which one can relate. E.g. A and B work together
in the same shift, and there shift ended after 7 hours, so over here, since A
can relate how much tiring it was as he did the same, he can say to B (who
also worked for the same time), 疲れたね (with rising intonation).

Also, note that over here if A was not working with B, but was elsewhere and
then he would have said this to B, this ね would have been the ね of
confirmation i.e. I am assumed you are tired after working for 7 hours, can
you confirm it?.

(Self-made example) Whereas, 疲れたでしょう would have been used in a situation where
the でしょう is of agreement, where the person cannot relate to the
action/situation/scenario pertaining to the work/tiredness that the hearer
might have that he has. E.g. A a software engineer, who is a friend of B (the
person who did physical work for 7 hours), insists that B comes to drinking
sake after work with A, and says, 君は疲れたでしょう, to convince for a drink saying
him release his tiredness (which A has no account of/can relate), by drinking
alcohol.

I hope it might help ! I know these are more of inferences, however, I tried
to give a wide perspective, and the possibilities that it might have.

Click hyperlink Misaさん, she has tried to explain the difference. However, I
felt that it needed more explanation.
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