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[lapis talon]

Can you give more context ? I don’t understand, you mean when the verb is composed of two words ?

[tribal loom]

isn't it always with avoir?

[lapis talon]

No it depends

Both works

[little sun]

can you give an example with etre?

[lapis talon]

We use avoir more when it’s in the past
Exemple : Son premier roman n’a paru que en 1980.
(His first novel was not published until 1980.)
But etre et avoir, both works

[lapis talon]

La nouvelle édition de cet ouvrage est parue

[tribal loom]

oh

it's because paraître doesn't have the same meaning here

at first i was only thinking about the "avoir l'air, sembler" meaning

which goes with avoir

[tribal loom]

i would use être here

[lapis talon]

Oh yeah

Paraître means also, publier ( il a été publié )

[lapis talon]

Idk i checked on google to be sure and to not say something wrong but it says that when it’s in the past we use more avoir but both works perfectly

•And to answer the other question, sembler we use it like seems.
Ex : Il semble jeune. ( « il semble » he seems young but maybe he is 70 yrs old

• paraître and sembler are synonyms if you use it in that way ⬆️
It means exactly the same thing

But if paraître means to publish in your sentence they are not synonyms anymore ❌
So don’t use sembler if you wanna say : the book was published in 2021

@gritty oriole

[gritty oriole]

ok so paraître has two meanings one takes avoir and it also is synonymous with sembler, the other means to publish and it takes être, did i get this right?

[tribal loom]

i would sum it up like this, yes

but it might not be a general rule