Title: request – unique translation string Last modified: January 15, 2023 --- # request – unique translation string * Resolved [Johannes Jülg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timse201/) * (@timse201) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/) * Hello, * many languages have variations of articles: * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)#Crosslinguistic_variation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)#Crosslinguistic_variation) * For german users, the following string is translated as follows: * [https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/autodescription/stable/de/formal/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=1426119&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=95579107](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/autodescription/stable/de/formal/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=1426119&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=95579107) * Could you please make a unique string for these two translations. - This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [Johannes Jülg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timse201/). Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/) * (@cybr) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16383431) * Hi Johannes, * Thank you for translating! * Isn’t it possible to omit articles in some form, like this: `%s SEO-Einstellungen`? * I translated the plugin into Dutch and faced the same “die” (der) and “dat” ( das) issues. If you hit the “Other Languages” tab under the translation entry, you can find my Dutch translations, where I took liberties reconstructing sentences to avoid articles. Maybe those can aid you 🙂 * This article exception isn’t listed, but it’s still good to keep handy: [https://de.wordpress.org/mitwirken/style-guide-fuer-uebersetzungen/](https://de.wordpress.org/mitwirken/style-guide-fuer-uebersetzungen/). * Thread Starter [Johannes Jülg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timse201/) * (@timse201) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16404880) * unfortunately this is also not 100% correct. * It should be “Seite**n**-SEO-Einstellungen”, “Beitrag**s**-SEO-Einstellungen”( missing letter highlighted) * Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/) * (@cybr) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16405181) * We cannot programmatically determine which article should be used, for there are no linguistic rules determining the gender of a noun (other than learning them by heart). Since any post type can be used (think of Products for WooCommerce, or Events for calendar software), this must remain a placeholder. Of course, we could plainly make it “SEO-Einstellungen,” but that’s boring. * For Finish, the translators used `SEO-asetukset (%s)` (i.e., `SEO-Einstellungen(% s)`). I’m not a fan of this. * The Swedish translators used `SEO-inställningar för %s` (i.e., `SEO-Einstellungen für %s`). I think that would be the best one: simply omitting the article. Post, Page, Product, and many others are names for the post types, after all. * Thread Starter [Johannes Jülg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timse201/) * (@timse201) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16405624) * Unfortunately this is not grammatically correct either. I’m sorry. * I don’t think this only affects the german language. * How about some logic, so we cover the standard WordPress post types and each individual post type will get the placeholder? That way most of your users will get a 100% correct translation. * Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/) * (@cybr) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16408265) * Hi Johannes, * I either do it right for everything and everyone or not do it at all. * Have you considered that Seite, Produkt, and Beitrag are proper nouns (names) instead of common nouns (objects)? Like this: “SEO-Einstellungen für Sybre” — is that grammatically correct? If so, we could consider `%s` a proper noun and have it be a little quirky. * Still, I believe you can omit articles for common nouns in titles/names/buttons regardless, as is the case in most Western Germanic languages (including Dutch and English) — the string in question is a title of a meta box. It might not look right or form a perfect sentence, but it’s better than listing all possible articles. * If you are confident it isn’t possible to work around this issue, I’ll have to remove the placeholder so that it becomes simply “SEO-Einstellungen” and “Startseiten- SEO-Einstellungen”. No harm done, and it might even work better on smaller screens. * Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/) * (@cybr) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16459280) * I’m going to remove the `%s` in the next update — it’ll just be “SEO Settings”. This will also help us migrate TSF into Gutenberg’s ridiculously tiny sidebar. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘request – unique translation string’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/autodescription/assets/icon.svg?rev=3000376) * [The SEO Framework – Fast, Automated, Effortless.](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autodescription/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autodescription/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autodescription/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autodescription/reviews/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/) * Last activity: [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-86/#post-16459280) * Status: resolved