Meaning of 言われ + ても


I was looking up the conjugation of `言う`, and the passive form of it is
`言われる`. In the sentence below, which I did not write, `ても` gets attached to
that verb form after first dropping `る`. Can someone please explain the
grammar behind why it was dropped? What does `ても` mean in this case?

> 急にそんなこと **言われても** 困るよ。




も is roughly "even", "also". Attached to a verb's て-form, it has a meaning of
"even (if)".

言われても thus literally means "even if told".

A translation for you sentence might look like this: "I'm going to worry/be in
trouble even if you suddenly tell me that!" (even if I'm being told that)




も is roughly "even", "also". Attached to a verb's て-form, it has a meaning of
"even (if)".

言われても thus literally means "even if told".

A translation for you sentence might look like this: "I'm going to worry/be in
trouble even if you suddenly tell me that!" (even if I'm being told that)

