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[tidal garnet]

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[fossil agate]

Tu as fait cela ? :0

[flat acorn]

Because "arriver" is a verb that has to be used with the "être" auxiliary when used in "Participe composé"

[flat acorn]

Non, l'illustration vient de ce site : https://acupoffrench.com/french-grammar/auxiliary-verb-etre/

[lone niche]

ah je vois, merci bcp

[flat acorn]

[obsidian oxide]

Interestingly, a pretty much identical rule used to exist in English, whereby the auxiliary verb "to be" was often used instead of "to have" with certain intransitive verbs, especially verbs of motion or change of state.

hence you'll see phases like "He is come" or "I am returned" in older texts.

And it's possibly where common every day phrases like "he is gone" come from.

[scarlet heart]

Side note: To ask someone whether they were the person who did something, you'd say "C'est toi qui as fait ça ?" -> the "c'est toi" clarifies that the question is about whether they did it