"His car is maybe broken down."

Translation: Sa voiture est peut-être en panne.

[MichaelHaa65689]

These English sentences are getting more and more bizarre - is it to assure the French syntax is correct? I don't get it. In English, we would say, "maybe his car is broken down"

[joerie82]

Sa voiture est peut-être cassée. Why is this wrong?

[NathEighty]

Cassé is broken as in physically damaged. En panne refers to broken down as in something being wrong with the mechanics of the car.

[NathEighty]

*cassée

[Joyce644554]

I started the sentence with peut-être which should be acceptable

[Roger932017]

Why is ' Peut-etre sa voiture est en panne' incorrect?

[CyberPhil]

Ditto

[Sharon943434]

"Sa voiture peut etre est en panne"

[kenny190307]

peut-être sa voiture est en panne. why isn't this accepted????

[faintsignal]

I reported this exercise for the ungrammatical (and unnatural) English phrasing:
His car is maybe broken down.
That sounds like something a not quite fluent ESL speaker might utter. A much better phrasing would be:
His car may be broken down.
or better yet:
His car may have broken down.

[Rhonda856158]

Or 'Maybe/Perhaps his car has broken down.'

[DanMacKinn1]

"His car may be broken down." would be more natural English. "Maybe is" sounds very awkward.