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Here's the full sentence:

’なんぼ **期待されとっても倒れたら** 元も子もないんやから。’

And here's where I ended up:

'Because no matter what you say, **even if you have hopes** , you'll lose
everything **if you burn out**.'

The context is, this is something the main character's mother (who lives in
Kochi prefecture in the Shikoku region), is saying. I decided that とって could
be a contraction of とる (to have) but then I realized that means more like 'to
have lunch' or 'to have a nap'. So does this make my translation wrong?

Here's another theory. So I found out that 〜んやから at the end of the sentence is
colloquial Kansai-ben which could be characteristic of the Shikoku region with
it's proximity to Kansai. So I decided to research colloquial contractions. I
found that the contraction 〜てあいて changes to といて in Kansai-ben. I thought I saw
somewhere on google that といて sometimes is とって. So if that's the case, could
the translation be:

'Because whatever the circumstances, **if you're expecting to burn out** ,
you'll lose everything.'

Last theory is that it's とっても. I've just never seen とっても inserted mid-
contraction like this. If this is grammatical, I suppose the translation could
be:

'Because whatever the circumstances, **if you're expecting to really burn
out** , you'll lose everything.'

Thanks for taking the time.
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translation passive-voice dialects contractions kansai-ben
How would I translate ’期待されとっても倒れたら’ in this sentence
This 期待されとる is short of 期待されておる (see [this
chart](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/18159/5010)), and in this context
[おる is the same as いる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/26091/5010) for
progressive aspect. なんぼ is the equivalent of いくら in Kansai/Shikoku dialect. や
is widely used instead of だ in western Japan.

なんぼ期待されとっても、倒れたら元も子もないんやから。  
= いくら期待されていても、倒れたら元も子もないんだから。  
= No matter how much you are expected (No matter how much they expect on you),
if you fall down, you'll lose everything.
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