Passer can be used with avoir or être...

Tatiana D.C1Kwiziq community member

Passer can be used with avoir or être...

« Les cloches sont passées ce matin pour apporter les œufs de Pâques » but in the other quizz « Il a passé l’hiver dernier à Chamonix ». In my mind it should be avoir in both sentences. 

Asked 4 years ago
Chris W.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

If you use passer with avoir, you need a direct object. In the second sentence, l'hiver is the COD. There is no COD in the first sentence.

Tatiana D.C1Kwiziq community member

If « l’hiver » is a direct object why «ce matin » is not a direct object? What « ce matin » is in this case??? 

Tatiana D.C1Kwiziq community member

Perhaps if you rewrite the sentence the following way: “Ce matin, les cloches sont passées pour apporter les œufs de Pâques ”, then it is certainly «être» because the preposition is right after the verb «passer». 

Tatiana D. asked:

Passer can be used with avoir or être...

« Les cloches sont passées ce matin pour apporter les œufs de Pâques » but in the other quizz « Il a passé l’hiver dernier à Chamonix ». In my mind it should be avoir in both sentences. 

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