Catalan (ca) Translation Agent Skill

Locale code: ca Preferred variant: Standard Catalan (ca), consistent with existing translations in airflow-core/src/airflow/ui/public/i18n/locales/ca/

This file contains locale-specific guidelines so AI translation agents produce new Catalan strings that stay 100% consistent with the existing translations.

1. Core Airflow Terminology

The following terms must remain in English unchanged (case-sensitive):

• Dag / Dags — Airflow concept; never write "DAG"
• XCom / XComs — Airflow cross-communication mechanism
• Asset / Assets — Data dependency tracked by Airflow
• Plugin / Plugins — Airflow extensibility mechanism (translated as "Extensió" in nav/labels — keep English in code references)
• Pool / Pools — Resource constraint mechanism
• Provider / Providers — Airflow extension package name
• Map Index — Task mapping index
• PID — Unix process identifier
• ID — Universal abbreviation
• UTC — Time standard
• JSON — Standard technical format name
• REST API — Standard technical term
• Log levels: CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG

2. Standard Translations

The following Airflow-specific terms have established Catalan translations that must be used consistently:

3. Task/Run States

4. Catalan-Specific Guidelines

Tone and Register

• Use a formal, professional register suitable for technical software UIs.
• Avoid colloquialisms; prefer neutral and precise language.
• Keep UI strings concise — they appear in buttons, labels, and tooltips.

Gender Agreement

• Catalan nouns have grammatical gender; match adjectives and articles accordingly:
  • "Dag" is treated as masculine: "el Dag", "un Dag"
  • "Tasca" is feminine: "la tasca", "una tasca"
  • "Execució" is feminine: "una execució", "l'execució"
  • "Connexió" is feminine: "la connexió"
  • "Variable" is feminine: "la variable"
  • "Instància" is feminine: "la instància"

Plural Forms

• Catalan uses i18next plural suffixes _one and _other. Add -s or -es according to standard Catalan rules, or use the established glossary form:

  "task_one": "Tasca",
  "task_other": "Tasques"
  

  "dagRun_one": "Execució de Dag",
  "dagRun_other": "Execucions de Dag"
  

Capitalization

• Use sentence case for descriptions and longer strings.
• Use title-like capitalization for headers, labels, and button text (match the style of existing translations).
• Capitalize proper terms: "Dag", "Asset", "XCom", "Pool", etc.
• Do not capitalize common nouns mid-sentence.

Elision and Contractions

• Apply standard Catalan elision and contraction rules:
  • de + vowel → d' (e.g., "Registre d'auditoria", "ID d'execució")
  • el/la + vowel → l' (e.g., "l'execució", "l'operador")
• Prepositions a + el → al; de + el → del

Diacritics

• Always preserve Catalan diacritics: à, è, é, ï, ò, ó, ú, ü, ç, · (interpunct in l·l).
• Never drop or substitute accents.

Word Order

• Standard SVO word order — similar to English.
• Adjectives typically follow nouns (e.g., "interval de dates", "execució activa").

5. Examples from Existing Translations

Always keep in English:

• "Dag" → "Dag"
• "Asset" → "Asset"
• "XCom" → "XCom"
• "Pool" → "Pool"
• "Provider" → "Provider"

Common translation patterns:

task_one              → "Tasca"
task_other            → "Tasques"
dagRun_one            → "Execució de Dag"
dagRun_other          → "Execucions de Dag"
backfill_one          → "Reompliment"
backfill_other        → "Reompliments"
taskInstance_one      → "Instància de tasca"
taskInstance_other    → "Instàncies de tasca"
assetEvent_one        → "Esdeveniment d'Asset"
assetEvent_other      → "Esdeveniments d'Asset"
running               → "Executant-se"
failed                → "Fallit"
success               → "Exitós"
queued                → "En cua"
scheduled             → "Programat"

Action verbs (buttons):

Add     → "Afegir"
Delete  → "Eliminar"
Edit    → "Editar"
Save    → "Desar"
Reset   → "Restablir"
Cancel  → "Cancel·lar"
Confirm → "Confirmar"
Import  → "Importar"
Export  → "Exportar"
Search  → "Cercar"
Filter  → "Filtrar"

6. Agent Instructions (DO / DON'T)

DO:

• Match tone, style, gender agreement, and casing from existing ca/*.json files
• Use formal Catalan register throughout
• Preserve all i18next placeholders: {{count}}, {{dagName}}, {{type}}, etc.
• Apply correct Catalan elision (d', l', contractions al, del)
• Preserve all diacritics (à, è, é, ï, ò, ó, ú, ü, ç, ·)
• Provide all needed plural suffixes (_one, _other) for each key

DON'T:

• Translate Airflow-specific terms listed in section 1
• Drop or substitute diacritics (e.g., never write "Execucio" for "Execució")
• Change hotkey values (e.g., "hotkey": "e" must stay "e")
• Invent new vocabulary when an equivalent already exists in the current translations
• Use "DAG" — always write "Dag"
• Capitalize common nouns mid-sentence

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Version: 1.0 — derived from existing ca/*.json locale files (March 2026)