Superlatives and relative clauses
le seul qui
SubjunctiveExample
C'est le seul film qui m'ait vraiment marqué.
Why
After le seul, l'unique, le premier and le dernier, the relative clause takes the subjunctive: the sentence carries an appraisal, not a plain statement. The indicative stays possible when you want to stress the bare fact, but the subjunctive is the expected form.
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