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Regarding construction of sentence 'Il nous faut une nouvelle maison'

I am a beginner in French, and have come across the sentence 'Il nous faut une nouvelle maison', meaning 'we need a new house'. I was wondering what the 'il' is doing here. In basic grammar, on ...
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Regarding the placeholder subject « il » in the phrase « il en arrive une nouvelle »

When the verb « arriver » means "happen", I say the following, for instance, using the placeholder subject « il » first and then the real subject « rien »: J'espère qu'il ne lui arrivera rien. But ...
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