die Motivation
Meaning in English: motivation
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Mir fehlt heute die Motivation zum Lernen.
Today I lack the motivation to study.
Der, die or das?
Motivation is feminine: die Motivation. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Motivation?
Motivation is number 2,832 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,828der Kaffeecoffee
- 2,829steigernincrease, boost
- 2,830selbstständigindependent; self-employed
- 2,831das Kreuzcross; lower back
- 2,832die Motivationmotivation
- 2,833die Bilanzbalance sheet; outcome, record
- 2,834der Gastgeberhost
- 2,835das Fahrradbicycle
- 2,836Smartphonessmartphones
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,832
- The most common German nouns#1,187
- German B1 vocabulary#909
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#394
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.