Breakdown of Podoba nam się ta wspinaczka pomimo trudnych warunków.
ten
this (m)
my
we
podobać się
to appeal / to like (aesthetically, first impressions)
trudny
difficult
Questions & Answers about Podoba nam się ta wspinaczka pomimo trudnych warunków.
Why is trudnych warunków in the Genitive case here?
The preposition pomimo (despite) requires the noun phrase following it to be in the Genitive case. Since "difficult conditions" is plural, it becomes trudnych warunków (from the Nominative plural trudne warunki).
Could I use mimo instead of pomimo in this sentence?
Yes, absolutely! Mimo and pomimo mean exactly the same thing (despite / in spite of) and both take the Genitive case. You could easily say ...mimo trudnych warunków. Pomimo is just slightly more emphatic, but they are fully interchangeable.
Why does this sentence use Podoba nam się instead of a direct translation like My lubimy?
The verb podobać się literally means "to be appealing to". So the sentence structure in Polish is actually "This climbing is appealing to us". That's why "this climbing" (ta wspinaczka) is the subject in the Nominative case, and "us" (nam) is in the Dative case. You could say Lubimy tę wspinaczkę, but podoba nam się specifically emphasizes your subjective feeling of finding the experience appealing.
I sometimes struggle with Genitive plural endings. Why does warunków end in -ów?