passé composé

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passé composé

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https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/apparaître#Notes être is correct (but so is avoir)

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It should be noted that with paraitre and its friends there’s some nuance. Although all forms of paraitre can be used by either avoir or être, in practice, paraitre verbs usually take avoir EXCEPT FOR « apparaitre » which takes être