My motivation is "great"??

Question

How would you translate "I have strong/great motivation" ?

I don't think "Mia motivacion es grande/estupendo" is the best translation, but maybe it is.

Thanks!

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Answer 1

Hello Jb_clem,

Welcome to the SpanishDict forum

You said:

Mia motivacion es grande/estupendo

The Spanish would not translate it this way:

Instead, you can say:

Tengo mucha motivación = I am highly motivated.

Estoy muy motivado = I am highly/greatly motivated.

You could also say: Tengo una gran motivación.

I hope this helps

Thank you very much for choosing my post : ) - FELIZ77, Apr 5, 2015

Answer 2

Mia motivacion es grande/estupendo para hacerlo

First what are you doing wrong (besides not using tildes):

Mi is the short form, mía is the long form:

Mi motivación

La motivación mía

Next if you chose estupendo- it would need to be estupenda to match- you match to the word motivation, not your sex.

Many ways to say it, my thoughts:

Mi motivación es enorme,

Tengo un una gran motivación,

Or to get really into it: mi motivación ha superado todos los límites. (I am sort of joking here)

I am not sure what a native speaker would do as most natural, so please wait for other opinions.

"Motivación" ... "una". I´m sure you understand how placement of a personal pronoun affects emphasis - for me, "short/long form" is very confusing, but good examples - 005faa61, Apr 4, 2015

Gracias, Julian, obviously a stupid error after I said he needed to match estupenda too the word. :) - bosquederoble, Apr 4, 2015

To me "la motivación mía" would imply that I am contrasting my motivation to someone else's- as opposed to yours, as opposed to the other candidate's; "mi motivación" lacks that sense of contrast- I am only talking about my motivation. Is that correct? - bosquederoble, Apr 4, 2015

Short and long form is the grammatical terminology used at our site for native English speakers- I am sure native Spanish speakers learn some other term in their grammar classes: http://www.spanishdict.com/topics/show/23 - bosquederoble, Apr 4, 2015

Thank you all for the assistance! I Just started learning Spanish a few weeks ago. - Jb_clem, Apr 4, 2015

De nada. :) - bosquederoble, Apr 4, 2015

@Bosque, you are right about the emphasis. The only "short/long" term I have ever heard for English grammar is for vowel pronunciation, but maybe I missed something in English class - 005faa61, Apr 4, 2015

Gracias, Julian, no- short and long forms are the terms used in English to teach students about Spanish possesive pronouns. :) - bosquederoble, Apr 5, 2015

Answer 3

Yo diría lo siguiente: Tengo una gran motivación.

If you want to be specific: Tengo una gran motivación (por..........) <---place a verb behind "por" and further elaborate.