A method for operating a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has an electric traction machine. In a first kind of operation of the motor vehicle, before or during a release of a parking brake of the motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is at a standstill, a desired rotational speed for a rotational speed regulation of the traction machine is set to a value corresponding to the standstill of the motor vehicle, and an actual rotational speed of the traction machine is adjusted to the desired rotational speed.