Translating Applite

Applite ships in English plus Hungarian, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) and Turkish. Everything lives in Localizable.xcstrings; English is the source language and the key.

This file is the glossary: the agreed rendering of the words that recur across the UI. Look a term up here before translating a string that contains it — a small app feels wrong much faster from calling the same button three different things than from any single awkward sentence.

Register

Not a matter of taste — this is what the existing translations already established, and new strings must match:

	Register	Buttons
hu	formal (magázás) — "Biztos véglegesen törli?"	nominal: Telepítés, not Telepítsd
fr	vouvoiement	infinitive: Installer. Plain space before ! ? : ; ¹
ja	です／ます	noun form; progress labels take …中
zh-Hans / zh-HK	你, not 您 (Apple's current style)	space between CJK and Latin/digits
tr	formal -iniz	sentence case

¹ Typographically French wants a narrow no-break space (U+202F) there. This catalog uses a plain U+0020 everywhere instead, deliberately: it survives copy/paste, grep and diffs, which matters more for a file translators edit by hand than the tighter kerning does. Be consistent — a mix of the two is worse than either.

Glossary

Values marked Apple were read out of the localization tables macOS itself ships — see Method. Where Applite deviates, the reason is given below the table; a deviation needs a reason, and "I'd have said it differently" isn't one.

Actions

Term	hu	fr	ja	zh-Hans	zh-HK	tr
Install	Telepítés	Installer	インストール	安装	安裝	Yükle
Reinstall ¹	Újratelepítés	Réinstaller	再インストール	重新安装	重新安裝	Yeniden Yükle
Uninstall	Eltávolítás	Désinstaller	アンインストール	卸载	解除安裝	Yüklemeyi Kaldır
Update	Frissítés	Mettre à jour	アップデート	更新	更新	Güncelle
Refresh	Frissítés	Actualiser	更新	刷新	重新整理	Yenile
Download	Letöltés	Télécharger	ダウンロード	下载	下載	İndir
Import	Importálás	Importer	読み込む	导入	匯入 ²	İçe Aktar
Export	Exportálás	Exporter	書き出す	导出	匯出 ²	Dışa Aktar
Open	Megnyitás	Ouvrir	開く	打开	開啟	Aç
Copy	Másolás	Copier	コピー	拷贝	複製	Kopyala
Delete	Törlés	Supprimer	削除	删除	刪除	Sil
Remove	Eltávolítás	Supprimer	削除	移除	移除	Kaldır
Stop	Leállítás	Arrêter	停止	停止	停止	Durdur
Cancel	Mégsem	Annuler	キャンセル	取消	取消	Vazgeç
Retry	Újra	Réessayer	再試行	重试	再試	Yeniden Dene
Try Again	Újrapróbálkozás	Réessayer	やり直す	重试	再試	Yeniden Dene
Continue	Folytatás	Continuer	続ける	继续	繼續	Sürdür
Select All	Összes kijelölése	Tout sélectionner	すべてを選択	全选	全選	Tümünü Seç
Deselect All	Kijelölés megszüntetése ³	Tout désélectionner	すべてを選択解除	取消全选	取消全選	Seçimi Kaldır
Dismiss / Close	Bezárás	Fermer	閉じる	关闭	關閉	Kapat
Search	Keresés	Rechercher	検索	搜索	搜尋	Ara
Done	Kész	Terminé	完了	完成	完成	Bitti

States

Term	hu	fr	ja	zh-Hans	zh-HK	tr
Installed	Telepítve	Installée	インストール済み	已安装	已安裝	Yüklü
Not installed	Nincs telepítve	Non installée	未インストール	未安装	未安裝	Yüklü değil
Enabled	Bekapcsolva	Activée	有効	已启用	已啟用	Etkin
Disabled	Letiltva	Désactivée	無効	已停用	已停用	Etkin değil
Outdated	Elavult	Obsolète	アップデートあり	有可用更新	有可用更新	Güncel değil
Deprecated	Elavult	Obsolète	非推奨	已弃用	已棄用	Artık önerilmiyor
Failed	Sikertelen	Échec	失敗	失败	失敗	Başarısız

Adjectives in French agree with l'application (feminine): Installée, Activée, Désactivée.

Sections and nouns

Term	hu	fr	ja	zh-Hans	zh-HK	tr
Settings	Beállítások	Réglages	設定	设置	設定	Ayarlar
General	Általános	Général	一般	通用	一般	Genel
Advanced	Haladó	Avancé	詳細	高级	進階	İleri Düzey
Options	Beállítások	Options	オプション	选项	選項	Seçenekler
Categories	Kategóriák	Catégories	カテゴリ	分类 ⁴	分類 ⁴	Kategoriler
Utilities	Segédprogramok ⁵	Utilitaires	ユーティリティ	实用工具 ⁵	工具程式 ⁵	İzlenceler
Applications / Apps	Alkalmazások	Applications	アプリ	应用	應用程式	Uygulamalar
Version	Verzió	Version	バージョン	版本	版本	Sürüm
Date	Dátum	Date	日付	日期	日期	Tarih
File	Fájl	Fichier	ファイル	文件	檔案	Dosya
Path	Útvonal	Chemin	パス	路径	路徑	Yol
Cache	Gyorsítótár	Cache	キャッシュ	缓存	快取	Önbellek
System	Rendszer	Système	システム	系统	系統	Sistem
Terminal	Terminál	Terminal	ターミナル	终端	終端機	Terminal
Output	Kimenet	Sortie	出力	输出	輸出	Çıkış
Error	Hiba	Erreur	エラー	错误	錯誤	Hata
Warning	Figyelmeztetés	Avertissement	警告	警告	警告	Uyarı
Note ⁶	Megjegyzés	Remarque	備考	备注	備註	Not
Waiting…	Várakozás…	En attente…	待機中…	等待中…	等待中…	Bekleniyor…

Homebrew jargon — not Apple's to define

These are Homebrew's own vocabulary. Keep them recognisable: a user who searches the web for help needs the term to survive translation.

Term	Treatment
Homebrew, Brew	never translated
Cask	never translated
Tap	kept as a proper noun; pluralised only where natural — hu Tapek, tr Tap'ler, otherwise Tap
Token	loanword in hu/fr/tr; ja トークン, zh-Hans 标识符, zh-HK 識別碼
Brewfile	never translated
--appdir, --greedy, tap, brew doctor	never translated, keep the backticks

Deviations from Apple, and why

1. Reinstall — Apple ships no "Reinstall" string; each language is derived from its Install form.
2. Import / Export (zh-HK) — Apple uses 輸入 / 輸出. Applite also has an Output string, which is 輸出, so adopting Apple's export term would make Export and Output the same word in the same app. 匯入 / 匯出 keeps them apart and is standard in Traditional Chinese software.
3. Deselect All (hu) — Apple's most frequent form is Összes kijelölésének törlése; this sits next to a checkbox in a sheet, so the shorter Kijelölés megszüntetése (also Apple's, less frequent) is used.
4. Categories (zh) — Apple uses 类别/類別. Applite keeps 分类/分類, which is what app stores use for browsable categories; 类别 reads as a data field.
5. Utilities — Apple's most frequent hit is the Launchpad "Other" grouping (Egyéb, 更多项目, Diğer). The folder sense is the one Applite means, so its less frequent forms are used.
6. Note — Apple's Jegyzet / メモ / 筆記 are the Notes app. Applite means "remark", as in "Note: this will…", so it uses Megjegyzés / 備考 / 備註.
7. Sort By (tr) — Apple's Şuna Göre Sırala: overflows the toolbar menu label; shortened to Sırala.

Method

The Apple column was not written from memory. macOS ships its localizations as .loctable plists — one file per string table, keyed by language — under /System/Library/Frameworks, /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks, /System/Applications and /System/Library/CoreServices. For each term, find the keys whose en value matches exactly, then read those same keys out of hu / fr / ja / zh_CN / zh_HK / tr, and count how often each rendering occurs.

Frequency is evidence, not a verdict: the same English word is often several different UI concepts, which is exactly what notes 4–6 above are about. Always check the alternates before adopting the top hit.

Checklist for a new string

• Every glossary term in it uses the glossary's rendering.
• Register matches the table at the top.
• Placeholders (%@, %lld) all present; reorder with %1$@ / %2$@ if the language needs it.
• Markdown, backticks and line breaks preserved exactly.
• Counted strings: French inflects after a numeral and needs plural variations. Hungarian and Turkish take the bare singular after a number, and Japanese/Chinese have no plural — one form.
• Buttons and labels stay close to the English length; long descriptions may run as long as they need to.