motivation
French, noun/mo.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
motivation is spelled M-O-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Motivation is a French feminine noun meaning “motivation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désir ou volonté spontanés”.
What does motivation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemotivation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Désir ou volonté spontanés. 2. Justification fournissant un motif. 3. Relation, lien entre un signe et la réalité qu'il désigne, entre le signifiant et le signifié.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of motivation
- motivations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce motivation?
- /mo.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
- \mɔ.ti.va.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to motivation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is motivation in French?
motivation appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).