"Nouă ne place foarte mult navigatul."

Translation: We like sailing very much.

[lebo_bebo]

Why is nouă used here? Is it as an indirect object I.e. our or is it referring to the number nine, in which case it would not be necessary here?

[coto.i]

Here "nouă" is unambiguously a stressed pronoun in the dative case. It is optional. It emphasizes the unstressed pronoun "ne".

If the phrase would be "Nouă ne place foarte mult.", then "nouă" would be either a stressed pronoun like in the original phrase or the numeral nine, depending on the context:

• Exersăm navigatul. Nouă ne place foarte mult. = We exercise sailing. We like it a lot.

• Alegeți un număr! Nouă ne place foarte mult. = Choose a number! We like nine a lot.

Please also see this thread https://www.duolingo.com/comment/26129267, and the links at the end of my long comment.

[lebo_bebo]

Thank you! Answering all my questions about different sentences and even linking between them! I like it!