Usage examples of "exact" in French with translation to English

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J'aimerais savoir le temps exact. I'd like to know the exact time.
Lorsqu'un imbécile rapporte les paroles d'un homme intelligent, ce n'est jamais exact, puisqu'il traduit inconsciemment ce qu'il entend en quelque chose qui lui est compréhensible. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
Ce n'est pas tout à fait exact. It isn't totally exact.
Je ne connais pas le lieu exact de ma naissance. I don't know the exact place I was born.
Je suis professeur, ou plutôt assistant professeur pour être exact. I'm a professor, or rather an associate professor, to be exact.
Je ne peux connaître le sens exact de cette peine. I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.
Je ne saisis pas le sens exact de cette phrase. I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.
J'aimerais savoir le taux exact du change pour le yen. I'd like to know the exact exchange rate for yen.
Je ne connais pas l'endroit exact où je suis né. I don't know the exact place I was born.
Tom et Marie ont une vingtaine d'enfants, mais ils ne sont pas certains du chiffre exact. Tom and Mary have about 20 children, but they're not quite sure of the exact number.
Je ne suis pas sûr de la date exacte. I'm not sure of the exact date.
Malheureusement, l'information est exacte. Unfortunately, the information is accurate.
Quelle est la signification exacte de ce mot ? What's the precise meaning of that word?
Pourrais-tu me donner l'heure exacte, s'il te plaît ? Can you tell me the exact time, please?
La méthode d'enquête scientifique n'est autre que l'expression du mode nécessaire du fonctionnement de l'esprit humain ; c'est simplement le mode par lequel on considère tous les phénomènes et on leur apporte des explications précises et exactes. The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind; it is simply the mode by which all phenomena are reasoned and given precise and exact explanation.
La vie n'est pas une science exacte, c'est un art. Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
L'art n'est pas une science exacte, c'est un art. Art is not an exact science, it's an art.
Il vous faut la monnaie exacte pour payer le péage de l'autoroute. You need to have exact change to pay the toll of the expressway.
J'ai beau essayer, je n'arrive pas à me rappeler les mots exacts. No matter how hard I try, I can't remember the exact words.
C'est peut-être exact. Perhaps that's true.
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