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little tigerBOT
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haughty cape
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What's your doubt?

deft sparrow
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But

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Answer key says j’ai retourné

haughty cape
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Ok, so you recognized it's an être verb, good

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The thing is, an être verb cannot keep "être" if it has a direct object

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The technical way to word this is that verbs used with être are intransitive & must use avoir if they're transitive (have an object)

deft sparrow
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Object can be anywhere right?

haughty cape
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You can look at this like the person doing the action being the object when it's être, but if there's already an object, it can't be the person doing the object, so it has to be avoir

deft sparrow
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Doesnt have to be near or something

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?

haughty cape
deft sparrow
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Is it the same for avoir?

haughty cape
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Avoir is used whenever être is not

deft sparrow
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no like if there is a direct object and the word given is avoir

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Will it turn into etre?

haughty cape
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Être verbs can't have a direct object

deft sparrow
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ohh

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got it

haughty cape
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Because the "object" is the person doing the action

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Je suis tombé
The thing that fell is me

deft sparrow
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tombe is etre

haughty cape
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Je suis passé à côté de l'école
I'm the thing that "passed" the school

J'ai passé le sel
The thing being "passed" is the salt, not me

deft sparrow
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oh

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demn my teacher prob forgot to teach this

haughty cape
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Je suis retourné à l'école
I'm the thing that went back

J'ai retourné mon tshirt
The shirt is the thing that was "retourné"

deft sparrow
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ok

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thx

haughty cape
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Np

deft sparrow
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like à

haughty cape
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It's used when there's no direct object

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A lot of them just straight up cam never have direct objects, but the ones that can will use avoir when they too

deft sparrow
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oh okk

finite shuttle
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Note that another class of "être" verbs, pronominal/reflexive verbs do use être, even if they have a direct object

je me suis pris un café

deft sparrow
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Pris is pronominal?

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eh

finite shuttle
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No, prendre is just a verb, but it can be used pronominally

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'se promener' and 'se level' are also indeed pronominal verbs, so they would use être
although it wouldn't be very common to use them with an additional object