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Rúben Azinheira
How to say Motivation in German. I am doing a presentation in my German class and I want to have a slide where I talk about my motivations for the topic. How do I say Motivation? I saw in some dictionaries that it is the same as in English and I saw that it could be Motivierung and even Begründung. What should I use for the title of the slide?
Mar 27, 2017 1:44 AM
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Well, it's correct that Motivation ist the "translation" of "motivation". In this case though (if you're talking about a slide where you explain why you chose this topic) I'd rather use "Begründung" (maybe "Begründung der Themenwahl" - that would be a statement explaining your choice of topic). I can't realms explain it though, "Motivation" just doesn't seem to fit the context. It sound a bit too "overwhelmed" and too positive for a school presentation.
March 27, 2017
I would put "Ursachen" instead, because you are going to talk about the causes (sources or reasons) why you want to talk about this.
March 29, 2017
i don't know
March 27, 2017
i don't know
March 27, 2017
I would rather use 'Gründe', for instance, die Gründe, warum ich dieses Thema ausgewählt habe, ....
March 27, 2017
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