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ても, is 'even if' really a perfect translation?

raikado

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Hello,

This is question that my sound silly, considering I'm asking this after more than an year and a half of japanese, but can ても always be translated as 'even if'? I've encountered this problem many times, but everytime I told myself that I could understand it on my own after more practice, but it didn't happen.

Here's the scenario. There is this boy that plays a lot of visual novels (games with beatiful girls) and there is this one time that he buys a game with beautiful guys instead of girls. He plays it, and a guy appears on the screen and tells him to insert his name. Here's his response: うげー!! 男に聞かれても名前入れる気しねー!! From what I know, ても creates some sort of contrast. I don't know for sure if he likes to insert his name when he is being asked by a girl, but it seems unfitting for the translation to be "Even if I'm being asked by a guy, I don't feel like inserting my name," considering that it's his first time playing a game with guys.

Doesn't my translation make you think that he should enjoy being asked by a guy but he isn't?

I'm also considering the fact that he doesn't like inserting his name even when girls ask him. Then it kind of makes sense ('Even when a guy asks me, i still don't feel like doing it'. I'm just thinking that it makes more sense the other way, considering the story so far. Also, I would like to post some other examples but at the time I didn't write them down anywhere.
 
This ~ても is more close to just "if/when". Semantically or gramatically, ~ては or ~たら is more appropriate for this case (男に聞かれたら名前入れる気しねー), but this usage is actually used (e.g. そんなこと言われても困ります = そんなこと言われては困ります / そんなこと言われたら困ります).
 
Yeah, I actually encountered ても困る a lot. And not only 困る but other verbs and adjectives that refer to the state of spirit (mood) as well. Some time ago I made the assumption that such a construction is the same as てもいい. I guess I didn't see it here because I expected a simple verb or adjective.

So, the question remains, does this ても only work with "mood" words?
 
This usage of ~ても is a bit special. The examples I can think of now indeed seem like only mood, especially negative mood such like 困る, うれしくない, 迷惑だ...
 
I see. Thank you!

I'll keep in mind to post here if I find this ても without something that refers to mood.
 
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