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Motiv — motive, motif, subject, reason in German

dasnounUnleveled
Pronunciation

/moˈti:f/

Quick Facts

Gender

das

Plural

Motive

Level

Unleveled

Frequency

78/100

Source Rank

#2,265

Word Family

Connected forms and compounds detected from the corpus.

Motiv Family4 wordsUnleveled 4Noun 2Adjective 1Verb 1

Example Sentences

Unsere Motive sind rein.

Our motives are pure.

Vielleicht hat Tom das Richtige getan, nur aus den falschen Motiven.

Maybe Tom did the right thing for the wrong reason.

Example sentences from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR.

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