# Custom Translations for Languages other than en\_US

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/custom-translations-for-languages-other-than-en-us/22485>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 26, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/custom-translations-for-languages-other-than-en-us/22485 "2022-01-26T09:14:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![smc\_iris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/smc_iris/32/6888_2.png) [@smc\_iris](https://forum.mautic.org/u/smc_iris)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/custom-translations-for-languages-other-than-en-us/22485/1 "2022-01-26T09:14:13Z")

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Hi there!  
I was trying to override the translation in German for the Field Group “Social”. In german it’s translated to “Sozial” but I would rather like it to say “Marketing”. There’s already some fields associated to the group Social so creating a new group and moving all those fields to the new group would be a bit more effort I guess.

I know overriding the translation files for en\_US is very easy by just using the same key in the messages.ini file. But that does not seem to be working for the german messages.ini file.

Here’s a short description of how my files look like:  
plugin-name/Translations/en\_US/messages.ini

```auto
mautic.lead.field.group.social="Marketing"

```

plugin-name/Translations/de/messages.ini

```auto
mautic.lead.field.group.social="Marketing"

```

I have no experience with Transifex but I assume it is for general translation, not custom ones, right?

Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![escopecz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/escopecz/32/370_2.png) [@escopecz](https://forum.mautic.org/u/escopecz)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/custom-translations-for-languages-other-than-en-us/22485/2 "2022-09-16T10:28:10Z")

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Hey, Mautic can actually override translations since the beginning. It was not documented though. I created a pull request to document this feature. It will be in the official docs once it is merged but until then you can find the text in [Documenting translation overrides by escopecz · Pull Request #332 · mautic/mautic-documentation · GitHub](https://github.com/mautic/mautic-documentation/pull/332)