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I told my friend 頑張って and they replied with:

> こんなことでいわれても

Would the meaning of this be something like:

> Even if this kind of thing is said (it doesn't help)
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What does こんなことでいわれても express?
いわれる is the passive of ''to say'' and is often used to express ''being told''
something. The only weird thing about the sentence is the で. I would say
こんなことを言われても to mean ''Even if you tell me such a thing...(it doesn't help)
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で is the instrumental case and in this case it stands for reason, so the
sentence can translate into "even if I'm told (of it) for such a (trivial)
thing ...".
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