"motivate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈməʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ [UK], /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ [US], /ˈmoʊ.ɾəˌveɪt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-motivate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: motivates [present, singular, third-person], motivating [participle, present], motivated [participle, past], motivated [past]
Etymology: motive + -ate Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|motive|ate}} motive + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} motivate (third-person singular simple present motivates, present participle motivating, simple past and past participle motivated)
  1. (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage. Tags: transitive Translations (to encourage): حَثَّ (ḥaṯṯa) (Arabic), мотивирам (motiviram) (Bulgarian), подбуждам (podbuždam) (Bulgarian), motivar (Catalan), 激发 (jīfā) (Chinese), motivovat (Czech), motiveren (Dutch), motivi (Esperanto), motivoida (Finnish), motiver (French), შეგულიანება (šegulianeba) (Georgian), motivieren (German), דרבן (dirbén) (Hebrew), motivál (Hungarian), motivare (Italian), 動機を与える (dōki o ataeru) (alt: どうきをあたえる) (Japanese), លើកទឹកចិត្ត (ləək tɨk cət) (Khmer), ...에 동기를 주다 (...e donggireul juda) (Korean), corrōborō (Latin), whakaohooho (Maori), whakahihiko (Maori), motiver (Norman), motivere (Norwegian Bokmål), برانگیختن (barângixtan) (Persian), motywować [imperfective] (Polish), zmotywować [perfective] (Polish), motivar (Portuguese), motiva (Romanian), мотиви́ровать (motivírovatʹ) (Russian), motivírati (Serbo-Croatian), motivar (Spanish), motivera (Swedish), ప్రేరేపించు (prērēpiñcu) (Telugu), мотивува́ти (motyvuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian), khích lệ (Vietnamese), động viên (Vietnamese), khuyến khích (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-motivate-en-verb-~hZKGtpd Disambiguation of 'to encourage': 88 12
  2. (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-motivate-en-verb-yAtHraUY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ate Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate: 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: mismotivate, motivated, motivator, motive

Adjective [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|adjective form|g=f-p}} motivate f pl
  1. feminine plural of motivato Tags: feminine, form-of, plural Form of: motivato
    Sense id: en-motivate-it-adj-Rjpa6J-1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|past participle form|g=f-p}} motivate f pl
  1. feminine plural of motivato Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, plural Form of: motivato
    Sense id: en-motivate-it-verb-Rjpa6J-1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} motivate
  1. inflection of motivare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person
    Sense id: en-motivate-it-verb-82dLHFHE Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 2 4 81 12
  2. inflection of motivare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person
    Sense id: en-motivate-it-verb-7bD72Wll
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} motivate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of motivar combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: motivar
    Sense id: en-motivate-es-verb-NHFbj3gK Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for motivate meaning in All languages combined (9.8kB)

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        "To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage."
      ],
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          "incentive"
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          "encourage",
          "encourage"
        ]
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        "(transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "text": "He was motivated purely by self-interest.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Steam-motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To animate; to propel; to cause to take action"
      ],
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          "propel",
          "propel"
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        "(transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action"
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈməʊ.tɪ.veɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmoʊ.ɾəˌveɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥaṯṯa",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "حَثَّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "motiviram",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "мотивирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podbuždam",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "подбуждам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "jīfā",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "激发"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motiveren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motiver"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "šegulianeba",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "შეგულიანება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dirbén",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "דרבן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivál"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どうきをあたえる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōki o ataeru",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "動機を与える"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "ləək tɨk cət",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "លើកទឹកចិត្ត"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "...e donggireul juda",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "...에 동기를 주다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "corrōborō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "whakaohooho"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "whakahihiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motiver"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivere"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "barângixtan",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "برانگیختن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "motywować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zmotywować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motiva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "motivírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "мотиви́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivírati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "motivera"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "prērēpiñcu",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "ప్రేరేపించు"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "motyvuváty",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "мотивува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "khích lệ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "động viên"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to encourage",
      "word": "khuyến khích"
    }
  ],
  "word": "motivate"
}

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    "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Italian non-lemma forms",
    "Italian past participle forms",
    "Italian verb forms"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "motivato"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine plural of motivato"
      ],
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}

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    "Italian past participle forms",
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  "lang_code": "it",
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          "word": "motivato"
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          "motivato#Italian"
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        "participle",
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  "word": "motivate"
}

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    "Italian non-lemma forms",
    "Italian verb forms"
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  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of motivare:",
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      ],
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        [
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        "second-person"
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    {
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      ],
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  "word": "motivate"
}

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        "2": "verb form"
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  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish non-lemma forms",
        "Spanish verb forms"
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      ],
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}
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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": jīfā vs. jīfā",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "verb",
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