Motivation: der, die or das?
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Motivation
Short answer: Motivation takes the article die (die Motivation). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “motivation” in English.
Motivation: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Motivation
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Motivation take die?
Nouns ending in -ion usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 67 of 67 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Motivation in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Motivation |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Motivation |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Motivation |
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