English-Spanish translations for motive

motivo¿Qué dice esto acerca de los motivos de la UE? What does this say about EU motives? Otro motivo es la nacionalidad. Another motive is nationality. ¿Qué motivos puede tener para hacer eso? What possible motive could there be for this?
móbil

An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
A motif.
To prompt or incite by a '''motive''or motives; to move
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
Relating to motion and/or to its cause

What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best
If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive
a motive argument
motive power

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