motiver
French, verb/mɔ.ti.ve/
motiver is spelled M-O-T-I-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Motiver is a French verb meaning “to motivate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Apporter de la motivation”.
What does motiver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to motivate
- 2
to justify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apporter de la motivation. 2. Provoquer les raisons ou les motifs ; susciter. 3. Justifier par des motifs. 4. Servir de motif à.
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 motiver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- motivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- motivé participle past
- motive first-person indicative present
- motives indicative present second-person
- motivons first-person indicative plural
- motivez indicative plural present
- motivent indicative plural present
- motivais first-person imperfect indicative
- motivait imperfect indicative singular
- motivions first-person imperfect indicative
- motiviez imperfect indicative plural
- motivaient imperfect indicative plural
- motivai first-person historic indicative
- motivas historic indicative past
- motiva historic indicative past
- motivâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce motiver?
- /mɔ.ti.ve/
- \mɔ.ti.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to motiver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is motiver in French?
motiver appears 5.4 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).