motorik

English

Etymology

German

Adjective

motorik (comparative more motorik, superlative most motorik)

1. (music, informal) Having a rigid, repetitive, driving 4/4 beat, as in krautrock.
   • 1996, Jim DeRogatis, Kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic rock from the '60s to the '90s:

     ...explores the anti-auto tirades of Peggy Suicide while (ironically) paying tribute to the motorik beat and highway sounds of Neu! and krautrock.

   • 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music:

     Kraftwerk and Can both used the motorik style as did later electronic oriented bands like Ultravox...

   • 2007, Phil Freeman, Marooned: the next generation of desert island discs:

     ...with occasional C-sharp and B chords thrown in there to relieve the tension, and a motorik beat.

Swedish

Noun

motorik c

1. motor skills

   Han har dålig motorik

   He has poor motor skills

Declension

Declension of motorik
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	motorik	motoriken	—	—
Genitive	motoriks	motorikens	—	—

Related terms

• motorisk

References

• motorik in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• motorik in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)