motivar
Spanish, verb/motiˈbaɾ/
motivar is spelled M-O-T-I-V-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 18,761st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Motivar is a Spanish verb meaning “to motivate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Proporcionar un motivo o incentivo, incitar”.
What does motivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to motivate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Proporcionar un motivo o incentivo, incitar. 2. Conducir a una persona en medio de una acción a fin de lograr un determinado objetivo o meta.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of motivar
- motivo first-person present singular
- motivé first-person preterite singular
- motivado participle past
- motivando gerund
- motivada feminine participle past
- motivados masculine participle past
- motivadas feminine participle past
- motivas indicative informal present
- motivás indicative informal present
- motiva indicative present singular
- motivamos first-person indicative plural
- motiváis indicative plural present
- motivan indicative plural present
- motivaba first-person imperfect indicative
- motivabas imperfect indicative second-person
- motivábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- motivabais imperfect indicative plural
- motivaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce motivar?
- /motiˈbaɾ/
- [mo.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
- [mot̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to motivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is motivar in Spanish?
motivar appears 2.6 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).