Superlatives and relative clauses

le seul qui

Subjunctive

Example

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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Superlatives and relative clauses