# Wrong plural translation for table name. Is this a bug?

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258>\
**Category:** Internationalization\
**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258 "2022-11-25T08:05:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![xoich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/xoich/32/11039_2.png) [@xoich](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/xoich)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258/1 "2022-11-25T08:05:24Z")

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hello, I have Django version 4.1.3. I have a simple category table:

```auto
class Category(models.Model):
    name = models.TextField()

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = _("category")
        verbose_name_plural = _("categories")

```

In english everything is fine.

I translate it to italian:

```auto
msgid "category"
msgstr "categoria"

msgid "categories"
msgstr "categorie"

```

The singular form works correctly. But the plural doesn’t, it’s not translated, it remains “categories”. And this happens only with this particular table. Other tables plurals are translated correctly. It feels like a bug caused by the italian translation of this plural word being exactly a prefix without the -s of the original word.

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**Author:** ![leandrodesouzadev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/leandrodesouzadev/32/8981_2.png) [@leandrodesouzadev](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/leandrodesouzadev)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258/2 "2022-11-25T10:22:56Z")

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Where are you seeing this happen?

Can you provide some related code to that as well?

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**Author:** ![xoich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/xoich/32/11039_2.png) [@xoich](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/xoich)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258/3 "2022-11-25T10:27:52Z")

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it’s happening in the admin panel, for example on the home of the admin panel with the main list of tables, but also in other places.

It’s a pretty minimal app, I don’t think there is other code that could be influencing this.

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**Author:** ![leandrodesouzadev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/leandrodesouzadev/32/8981_2.png) [@leandrodesouzadev](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/leandrodesouzadev)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258/4 "2022-11-28T10:40:14Z")

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Have you compiled the messages again?  
`python manage.py compilemessages`

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**Author:** ![xoich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/xoich/32/11039_2.png) [@xoich](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/xoich)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258/5 "2022-11-29T06:11:37Z")

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I think I fixed it. I thought that

#, fuzzy

in the po file was just a comment. But apparently it matters somehow? It was before the categories translation.

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**Author:** ![leandrodesouzadev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/leandrodesouzadev/32/8981_2.png) [@leandrodesouzadev](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/leandrodesouzadev)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/wrong-plural-translation-for-table-name-is-this-a-bug/17258/6 "2022-11-29T10:20:26Z")

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From the [translation docs](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/i18n/translation/):

## Fuzzy entries

> [`makemessages`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-makemessages) sometimes generates translation entries marked as fuzzy, e.g. when translations are inferred from previously translated strings. By default, fuzzy entries are **not** processed by [`compilemessages`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-compilemessages).