How to translate a model label in Django Admin?

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I could translate Django Admin except a model label because I don't know how to translate a model label in Django Admin.

So, how can I translate a model label in Django Admin?

score 73 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 01 '14 at 09:29

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Look at the Meta options verbose_name and verbose_name_plural, both of which are translatable.

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answered Mar 17 '10 at 14:17

Daniel Roseman

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but this will only change the name in home page,but when u click on the link(class) the upper header will display the class name which u mention before. verbose_name will only change the title in home page – ha22109 Mar 19 '10 at 13:31
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In Django 1.11 this is indeed the correct answer. The verbose_name appears on the admin home page and on every sub-page. – Patrick Keenan Aug 16 '17 at 20:13

Dos · Answer 2 · 2017-08-28T11:02:15.227

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You should use the ugettext_lazy util in the Meta of all your models

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

class Book(models.Model):
    ...

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = _("My Book")
        verbose_name_plural = _("My Books")

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answered Aug 02 '17 at 13:59

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Thanks for the answer, this helped me a lot. – Cool Breeze Aug 01 '18 at 03:30

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 20 '23 at 19:34

You should use gettext_lazy() and set it to verbose_name and verbose_name_plural to translate a model label in Django Admin as shown below. *You can see my answer explaining how to translate in Django in detail:

# "models.py"

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

class Person(models.Model):
    ...

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = _("person") # Here
        verbose_name_plural = _("persons") # Here

How to translate a model label in Django Admin?

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