мотивировать

Russian

Etymology

Perhaps from German motivieren + -овать (-ovatʹ); see also -и́ровать (-írovatʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mətʲɪˈvʲirəvətʲ]

Verb

мотиви́ровать • (motivírovatʹimpf or pf

  1. to give reasons (for), to justify (by), to motivate (by)

Conjugation

imperfective

perfective

Derived terms

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “мотив”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 544
  • Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2007), “мотивировать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 10 (М), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN, page 332

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