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Spanish translation — review notes

Written 2026-08-11 alongside the pass that filled in the 229 missing Spanish strings. The LatAm leftovers, the two typos and the hermanoHermana gender-dictionary bug that this pass turned up have all been fixed in the same commit; what remains below is the dialect evidence, the terminology splits nobody has unified yet, and the reasoning behind the new strings.

Dialect: European Spanish

The existing translation is European (Spain) Spanish, decisively:

Marker Spain form Count LatAm form Count
potato patata 11 papa 0
strawberry fresa 8 frutilla 1 → 0
to annoy enfadar 5 enojar 1 → 0
mouse (device) ratón ✓ — —
costs costes ✓ costos 0

coger is also used freely, which a Latin American translator would avoid. All 229 new strings were written in this style.

Note on piso vs suelo

The walking-surface sense of floor was normalised to suelo in this pass, because in Spain piso means flat/apartment. The storey sense was deliberately left as piso, where it is perfectly idiomatic in Spain:

  • uiGeneral.json :: floorUp / floorDown — "Subir/Bajar un piso"
  • uiIngame.json :: switchFloors / switchFloorsDescription
  • uiIngame.json :: constructionCostsAdditionalOnFloor

If a future pass wants these uniform, planta is the more formal Spain term for a building level ("la primera planta").

Terminology that is split in the existing translation

Not wrong, just inconsistent. Listed in case a future pass wants to unify.

  • Storage: almacén (23) / depósito (16) / almacenamiento (6). The new strings use almacenamiento for the UI panel (matching the existing storage key) and el almacén in running prose.
  • Shelf: estante (39) / estantería (27), sometimes for the same object.
  • Capitalisation of object names in gameObjects.json: 126 multi-word names use Title Case ("Gabinete de Pociones Curativas"), 168 use sentence case ("Cómoda simple de madera"). Spanish does not title-case, so sentence case is the correct default; the new entries use it, except gardenSoil → "Tierra para Flores" which deliberately matches its farm*Soil siblings ("Tierra para Tomates", "Tierra para Patatas").
  • Colonist vs villager: the English source mixes colonist and villager for the same entity; Spanish has colono and aldeano. The new multipleVillagerSelection uses colonos, since it selects the player's own colonists.

Decisions made for the new strings

Recorded so a later reviewer doesn't have to re-derive them.

  • Quotation marks — quotation_start / quotation_end are « / » (RAE-correct for Spain; no inner spaces, unlike the French entry). The 16 painting titles use the same marks. If the UI font ever renders these badly, all 18 strings need to change together.
  • Hobby names — the Woodworking and Masonry hobbies carve statues (see HobbyModule.cs, lowSkilledWoodworkingProducts etc.), so they are "Talla en madera" and "Cantería", not the Carpintería / Albañilería used by tech.json and professions.json for the genuinely different profession skills. Interactions follow: DoWoodworking → "Talla la madera", DoMasonry → "Talla la piedra".
  • Hobby (noun) → afición ("Aficiones", "Es su afición principal"). hobby is also current in Spain, but afición reads better in a UI and inflects cleanly.
  • Painting (noun) → cuadro for the physical object (RemovePainting → "Retira el cuadro", paintingCompleted → "Cuadro terminado"), pintura for the activity (hobbyTitle_Painting → "Pintura"). This is the natural Spanish split. Note the pre-existing paintingGoodVibes → "Pintura de Buenas Vibras" uses pintura for an object; left alone.
  • Localised references — paintingHorse "Bullseye" → "Perdigón" (the horse's name in the Spain dub of Toy Story); paintingPanorama "Everything the light touches" → "Todo lo que ilumina el sol" (the Spain dub line from The Lion King). Both would need the Latin American variants (Tiro al Blanco, todo lo que toca la luz) if the translation ever forks by region.
  • Achievement labels — normalAchievements and challengerAchievement end in a colon, because AchievementHandler.GetAchievementStatusTitle concatenates them with available/disabled; without the colon "Logros normales Desactivado" would not agree in number. French and Portuguese solved it the same way.
  • trapUses — English is "Number of times trap can be reset", rendered as LABEL: 3/5. Shortened to "Usos restantes de la trampa" to fit, matching what German and Czech did.
  • Rations — smallRationsTooltip_Title etc. use "Raciones de comida pequeñas / medianas / grandes", aligning with foodRations → "Raciones de comida". The existing thoughts.json titles use the other word order ("Pequeñas raciones de comida"); both are correct Spanish, so they were left as they are.

Coverage at time of writing

Area Status
24 top-level .json + mods/ (2) 2935 / 2935 entries
achievements/1104330_loc_spanish.vdf 41 / 41 tokens
websites/steam.md all 16 sections present