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Il faut le remplir aujourd'hui.

Il faut le remplir aujourd'hui.
You must fill it out today.
From Lesson 141:Polite requests (j'aimerais, tu pourrais...)·French

Questions & Answers about Il faut le remplir aujourd'hui.

The translation says "You must", but il usually means "he". Why is that?
Il faut is a set phrase (an impersonal expression) that literally means "it is necessary". It only ever uses the pronoun il (meaning "it" in this case). Even though it doesn't mention "you" specifically, we usually translate it into English as "you must", "we must", or "one must" depending on the context.
We are learning polite requests. How could I make this sentence softer, like "You should fill it out"?
You can change il faut into the conditional tense! It becomes il faudrait (it would be necessary / you should). Saying Il faudrait le remplir aujourd'hui is a much more polite and less demanding way to ask someone to do it.
Why is the word le (it) placed before remplir instead of before faut?
In French, object pronouns like le go directly in front of the verb they are the object of. Because "it" is the thing being filled out, le belongs to the infinitive remplir (to fill out), not the verb faut.
Does remplir only mean "to fill out" a document?
No, remplir means "to fill" in general. While it is the correct verb for filling out a form or a document, you can also use it for physical objects, like filling a glass or a bottle.

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