motiver
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verb
to motivate
to justify
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- Quant au cheval, nous trouverons quelque excuse pour motiver sa disparition.As for the horse, we will find some excuse to justify its disappearance.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- La tentative que la compagnie des cent associés avait faite d'établir celle du Vexin-le-Français fit probablement motiver cette déclaration.The attempt made by the company of the hundred associates to establish the Vexin-le-Français company probably motivated this statement.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
- Athos reconnut son camarade, et, tout flegmatique qu’il était, il partit d’un éclat de rire que motivait bien la mascarade étrange qu’il avait sous les yeux: coiffes de travers, jupes tombantes sur les souliers; manches retroussées et moustaches raides d’émotion.Athos recognized his comrade, and, whatever he was, he started out with a burst of laughter that the strange masquerade he had in front of his eyes motivated: cross-dresses, skirts falling on the shoes; upholstered sleeves and stiff moustaches of emotion.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- La demande assez mal motivée de quinze cents colons pour remplacer les habitans partis pour l'armée, resta sans réponse et sans fruit.The ill-motivated demand of fifteen hundred settlers to replace the habitans left for the army remained unanswered and fruitless.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
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