Bengali style

টিপ্পনী — the Bengali style sheet

This document is the decision, not a survey. Three writers are about to put roughly 40,000 characters of Bengali into internal/i18n/bn.txt in parallel. The single worst outcome is three registers in one interface, so nothing here is a suggestion. Where you disagree with a call, mark the line (§7) and move on — do not quietly render it your way.

Read once, end to end, before writing a single line. Then keep §3 open beside you.

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§0. The five mechanical facts that constrain every decision below

These are properties of the file and the test suite, not opinions. Check them yourself if you like; they are the reason several decisions in this sheet go the way they do.

1. bn.txt is held to the same copy budgets as en.txt. web/frontend/test/locale-file.js exports BUILTINS = [['en', EN], ['bn', BN]], and test/rules/help-budget.test.js and test/rules/infodot-copy.test.js both walk it. A Bengali .what over 160 characters fails the suite. Hard numbers in §6.

2. A value cannot carry a marker. The parser splits on the first = and trims only whitespace, so anything you put after the = ships to the screen. Every note, doubt and length flag is therefore a comment line above the key (§7).

3. Numbers arrive as Western digits and you cannot change that. i18n.js's fill() interpolates with String(vars[name]) — no Intl.NumberFormat — so {n} is always 12, never ১২. Consequence in §3.0.

4. Bengali has two plural categories and zero counts as one. new Intl.PluralRules('bn').select(0) === 'one'. So a family with only .other written leaves both n = 0 and n = 1 falling back to English. Consequence in §3.0.

5. The mono/small-caps font stack has no Indic face. src/locale.jsx says so in its own header: the mono stack is latin, ui-monospace, monospace. Bengali in a mono slot draws in whatever the OS reaches for. And Bengali has no letter case, so text-transform: uppercase and small caps do nothing to it. Consequence in §6.3.

How to check your own work before handing it in

cd "D:/Code Projects/tippani/web/frontend"
npx vitest run test/rules/help-budget.test.js test/rules/infodot-copy.test.js

Both pass today. If either fails after your pass, the failure names the key and the character count.

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§1. REGISTER

1.1 চলিত ভাষা. Not সাধু. Not officialese.

Write modern colloquial standard Bengali — the register of a well-edited Bengali newspaper feature or a good blog, not of a circular. Concretely, this is the register that says করুন, not করিবেন; হয়েছে, not হইয়াছে; তার, not তাহার; এখন, not এক্ষণে.

The failure mode this app is actually exposed to is not সাধু — nobody writes সাধু by accident any more. It is bureaucratic Bengali: the register of a form. Its tells are strung-together verbal nouns (সংরক্ষণ করা হইতেছে), এবং where speech says আর, তথা, উক্ত, প্রদত্ত, নিম্নলিখিত, অনুগ্রহপূর্বক, and passive constructions with an agent that never appears. If a sentence could be pinned to a municipal noticeboard, rewrite it.

Two positive tests you can apply to any line you have just written:

• Would you say this out loud to a friend about this app? If not, it is the wrong register.
• Is there an -করণ / -বিধান / -পূর্বক in it? Take it out.

1.2 Person-form: আপনি. Committed.

The app is a personal library, which argues for তুমি — but আপনি wins on two grounds. First, তুমি from software to an adult reader is socially marked in Bengali in a way you is not in English: it reads either as a children's app or as an impertinence from a stranger, and this app also carries an admin, other users' accounts, and destructive confirmations, where being talked down to is worse than being kept at a polite distance. Second, warmth in Bengali comes from word choice and rhythm, not from the pronoun — এখনও জেগে আছেন? is warm; এখনও জেগে আছ? is familiar, which is a different and unearned thing.

So: আপনি throughout, and its verb forms — করুন, দেখুন, রাখুন, দেখেননি, পারেননি. No exceptions, including greetings and the tour.

1.3 But drop the pronoun. This is the single biggest fluency lever.

Bengali does not need আপনার the way English needs your, and the calque's most obvious tell is আপনার in front of every noun. Delete আপনার unless possession is the actual point — that is, unless the sentence contrasts your thing with somebody else's, or with the app's.

English	Wrong	Right
Your books	আপনার বই	বই
Open your book library	আপনার বইয়ের লাইব্রেরি খুলুন	বইয়ের লাইব্রেরি খুলুন
Everything you delete waits here	আপনি যা কিছু মুছে ফেলেন সব এখানে থাকে	মুছে ফেলা সবকিছু এখানে থাকে
Every user keeps their own	প্রত্যেক ইউজার তার নিজের রাখে	প্রত্যেক ইউজারের নিজের আলাদা
Your margin notes	আপনার মার্জিনের নোট	আপনার মার্জিনের নোট (keep — contrasted with the author's book)

Same rule for এটি / এটা / তা standing in for an English it. Bengali drops the subject when it is obvious; an এটি at the head of a clause is almost always a translated It.

1.4 Orthography: Kolkata standard, and here are the specific forms

Three writers will otherwise disagree about a dozen spellings, and the diff will look like three people. Use these:

• কোনও (not কোনো, কোন), এখনও (not এখনো), হয়নি (not হয় নি), কিছুই
• -গুলো for the plural, not -গুলি (গুলি is a shade formal for this register)
• হিসেব (not হিসাব), উপলক্ষ (not উপলক্ষ্য), রং (not রঙ, except in compounds: রঙের, রঙিন)
• সবচেয়ে (not সর্বাধিক), আর (not এবং) as the everyday "and"; keep এবং for a formal list of three or more
• টা vs টি: টা on a definite noun in prose — বইটা, কার্ডটা, লাইনটা. টি after a numeral in a count — ১২টি বই. Human nouns take জন — ৩ জন লেখক.
• Sentence end: দাঁড়ি । in every prose sentence. A Latin full stop after Bengali reads as an untranslated remnant. ? and ! stay as they are. No । on a label, a chip, a placeholder or a hint that the English leaves unpunctuated. The key common.form.reason.sentence = {reason}. exists solely to put the stop on — in Bengali it becomes {reason}।
• Quotation marks: the curly pair “ ”, as en.txt uses. Em dash — is available and Bengali takes it well; see §5.3 for when to break it into a sentence instead.

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§2. THE THREE DOMAIN TERMS

This is the decision that matters more than every other decision in this document combined. The app distinguishes three things that English lazily calls "quotes", and Bengali can distinguish them better than English does.

2.1 First: what happens to টিপ্পনী

টিপ্পনী is the brand and the practice. It is never a countable object in the interface.

টিপ্পনী already means a marginal annotation — which is exactly what a book highlight is — so using it for the object collides head-on with the app's own name: টিপ্পনীতে ১২টি টিপ্পনী is unusable. The word therefore keeps one job and one job only:

• The product name, in Bengali script: টিপ্পনী. Write it this way in Bengali copy, never as tippani in Latin. (common.filmstrip.edge.label = TIPPANI · SAFETY FILM is artwork, not copy — see §8.)
• The practice, in the epigraphs and the tour, where the app talks about what it is for: মার্জিনের টিপ্পনী. Uncountable, no classifier, no plural.

Nothing else. Not the object, not the field, not the count.

2.2 A book HIGHLIGHT (the app's "annotation") → উদ্ধৃতি (v3; দাগ retired)

Superseded by the owner in v3. দাগ reads as a stain and a scratch before it reads as a highlight, and the owner ruled it out: a book highlight is an উদ্ধৃতি like every other quote, the word the app already used for the umbrella and for anthologies. Where a screen must tell the kinds apart, the film line is still সংলাপ and the standalone quote উক্তি, so "বইয়ের উদ্ধৃতি, সিনেমার সংলাপ আর একলা উক্তি" is the shape. The original reasoning stays below for the record; do not act on it.

Reasoning. দাগ is what a Bengali reader literally does to a book — বইয়ে দাগ দেওয়া — and the app's object is precisely the metonymy English performs with highlight: the mark stands for the line it marks. It is short (3 code units, 2 clusters), it fits every narrow slot, it gives a free verb (দাগানো, দাগ দেওয়া), it maps onto the thing the reader actually sees (a coloured bar), and রঙের দাগ / দাগের রং falls out naturally for the colour category. It is a long-naturalised everyday word, not a Sanskritic coinage, and it cannot be confused with টিপ্পনী.

Rejected: হাইলাইট (an avoidable loan — §4), উদ্ধৃতাংশ and রেখাঙ্কন (decode-me coinages), পঙ্‌ক্তি (a line of verse; wrong for prose and for a note), টীকা (collides with টিপ্পনী's own sense).

The stain objection, answered: yes, দাগ also means a stain. In every place this word appears it is inside a book's own screen, next to a colour and a chapter, after a numeral. Context disposes of it, exactly as it does in English, where highlight also means the best bit of a football match.

2.3 A film LINE (the app's "dialogue") → সংলাপ

Reasoning. This one is simply correct. সংলাপ is the ordinary Bengali word for film dialogue — Bengali film writing and everyday film talk both use it, it is countable (৩টি সংলাপ), and it needs no gloss. Note that en.txt deliberately runs two English words for one row — film line in the bulk vocabulary and dialogue on the tile — because neither English word fits both slots. Bengali needs only one: সংলাপ serves both, and unit.dialogue.* and common.work-card.count.dialogue.* get the same word. That is a simplification, not a loss.

Rejected: ডায়ালগ (avoidable loan), কথা (too broad), বুলি (pejorative).

2.4 A STANDALONE QUOTE (an utterance) → উক্তি

Reasoning. উক্তি is a thing someone said — the word Bengali already uses for an attributed saying (রবীন্দ্রনাথের উক্তি). That is exactly this object: words with a speaker and an occasion and no work behind them. It sits perfectly with the two fields the app pairs it with, বক্তা and উপলক্ষ.

Rejected: বাণী (scriptural / pronouncement — too grand, and faintly comic on a line a friend said), কোট (lazy loan), বচন (proverbial only).

2.5 And the umbrella: উদ্ধৃতি

English overloads quote to mean both the third kind and all three kinds at once — stats.help.counts says so out loud: "annotations from books, dialogues from films, quotes from no work at all", and then nav.tab.quotes and quotes.board.all use the same word for the screen. Bengali splits it and is clearer for it:

Concept	Bengali	Where
All three kinds, as one class	উদ্ধৃতি	unit.quote, quote cards, anthologies, search, stats totals
A book highlight	উদ্ধৃতি (v3; was দাগ)	Library, a book's page, unit.highlight
A film / show / game line	সংলাপ	Catalogue, a title's page, unit.dialogue
A standalone utterance	উক্তি	the Quotes tab, boards, nav.tab.quotes
The practice, and the app	টিপ্পনী	brand, epigraphs, tour

The rule for choosing, with no thinking required: if the English string is on a screen that holds only one kind (a book's page, a title's page, a board), use that kind's word. If the string is shared across screens or counts all three, use উদ্ধৃতি. The nav.quotes tab and everything on a board is উক্তি; quotes.board.all.label = All quotes is সব উক্তি, because a board only ever holds উক্তি.

উদ্ধৃতি and উক্তি share a root, and that is deliberate: উদ্ধৃতি is something quoted from somewhere, উক্তি is something said by someone. They are visually distinct enough at a glance (5 clusters against 3) that no reader will confuse them, and semantically close enough that neither feels like a different subject.

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§3. THE TERM TABLE

This table is binding. If a word is in here, that is the word. If you need a term that is not in here, add a row at the bottom of this file under ## Additions with your choice and one line of reason, and mark the key with # ?? (§7) so the owner sees it once rather than three times.

3.0 Four rules that apply to the whole table before any single word does

• Digits are Western: 12, 1920, 01:15:00, 978-…. Never ০-৯. {n} arrives from JavaScript as 12 (§0.3), so a Bengali digit in a static string would put two number systems in one line. This applies to years, page numbers, ISBNs, timestamps, versions and counts alike.
• Both plural forms, always, and usually identical. Bengali takes no plural marker after a numeral, so unit.book.one and unit.book.other are both বই. Write both anyway: n = 0 resolves to one in Bengali (§0.4), and an unwritten form silently falls back to English. The same goes for every *.one / *.other sentence pair — write the same Bengali twice rather than leaving one out.
• common.count.phrase = {n} {noun} stays bare — no classifier. A count slot in Bengali is legitimately written 12 বই, and a shared phrase cannot carry both টি (objects) and জন (people). Where a sentence needs a classifier, the writer of that sentence supplies it: এখানে 12টা উক্তি রাখা আছে।
• The classifier is টা, and জন for people (v3). 12টা, দুটো, তিনটে, কটা — spelled without an apostrophe, as today’s print spells them. টি is the newsprint register this sheet keeps out, and the earlier passes had mixed the two on one screen.
• A shared key gets one word. The whole point of common.* is that the add form, the bulk bar, the table head and the export heading spell a thing the same way. If a shared key's Bengali does not fit one of its sites, mark it # ?? — do not fork it.

3.1 The objects

English	Bengali	Note
book	বই
film, movie	সিনেমা	Never চলচ্চিত্র — that is the newsprint register this sheet exists to keep out
show (TV)	শো	ধারাবাহিক means a daily soap; সিরিজ is reserved for the next row. 2 clusters, which the SHOW badge slot needs
game	গেম	খেলা would mean a match
title (a catalogue row)	টাইটেল	No Bengali word spans film + show + game; this is the gap-filling loan §4 allows
work (the thing a quote came from)	উৎস	The app's own quiz calls it "the source" — কোন উৎস থেকে
series / collection / franchise	সিরিজ	One word for both — en.txt itself says a collection is "the film side of the Library's series". হ্যারি পটার সিরিজ is what a Bengali says
quote (all three kinds)	উদ্ধৃতি	§2.5
highlight / annotation	উদ্ধৃতি	§2.2 — v3, the owner's call; দাগ retired
dialogue / film line	সংলাপ	§2.3
standalone quote	উক্তি	§2.4
note (the reader's own)	নোট	টীকা and টিপ্পনী are both barred (§2.1); নোট is what a Bengali says
tag	ট্যাগ
sticker	স্টিকার
seal (a sticker pinned to a quote)	স্টিকার	v3: one word for the file and the pinned copy — সিল read as a rubber stamp, and the reader pins "a sticker"
board	বোর্ড
anthology	সংকলন	The exact Bengali word for a curated gathering of writings. Do not use সংকলন for anything else
entry (of an anthology, of the bin)	এন্ট্রি
shelf	তাক
cover	কভার	প্রচ্ছদ is not wrong, but কভার keeps the কভার/পোস্টার pair in one register
poster	পোস্টার
picture / image (the share format)	ছবি
portrait (a person's photo)	মুখের ছবি	Distinguished from ছবি because the share sheet shows both at once
bin	ডাস্টবিন	v3: the word on every Bengali street corner; বিন alone is a bean
proverb	প্রবাদ
speech	ভাষণ
letter (correspondence)	চিঠি

3.2 People

English	Bengali	Note
author	লেখক
translator	অনুবাদক
editor (of a book)	সম্পাদক
speaker	বক্তা
character	চরিত্র
actor	অভিনেতা
director	পরিচালক
creator (of a show)	নির্মাতা
studio	স্টুডিও
publisher	প্রকাশক
people (the Metadata / Stats section)	মানুষ	ব্যক্তি is a form-filling word; মানুষ is warm and right for a screen of portraits
user	ইউজার	Not ব্যবহারকারী — nobody says it outside software (§4)
admin	অ্যাডমিন
reader (the name fallback)	পাঠক	greeting.name-fallback, shell.login.reader.fallback

3.3 Fields and locators

English	Bengali	Note
title (of a book/film)	নাম	The field, not the catalogue row — that is টাইটেল above
year	সাল	A calendar year. Use বছর only for a duration ("2 years")
decade	দশক
century	শতক
date	তারিখ
genre	ঘরানা	The Bengali word film and music criticism actually uses. Not জেনার, not ধরন (which is taken)
type (media type)	ধরন
chapter	অধ্যায়	Narrow slot: অধ্যা.
page	পৃষ্ঠা	Narrow slot: পৃ.
location (the Kindle locator)	লোকেশন
timestamp / time	সময়	One Bengali word for the app's two English ones
season	সিজন
episode	এপিসোড
occasion	উপলক্ষ
place	জায়গা
medium	মাধ্যম
language	ভাষা
translation	অনুবাদ
description	বিবরণ
colour	রং
colour category (the six named slots)	রঙের ঘর	ঘর = a slot, a pigeonhole. Where the English says just "category" meaning this, write রং
ISBN / ASIN / TMDB id	ISBN / ASIN / TMDB id	§8 — never transliterated

3.4 Actions

The button-grammar rule is in §5.4. These are the words.

English	Bengali	Note
save	সেভ	Busy: সেভ হচ্ছে…
cancel	বাতিল
delete	মুছুন	Not ডিলিট — মুছুন is universal and shorter
remove	সরান	Distinct from মুছুন: সরান takes it off, মুছুন destroys it
restore (bin and backup alike)	ফিরিয়ে আনুন	One word for both, since common.action.restore.label serves both
undo	আনডু
edit	এডিট	Not সম্পাদনা — that is what you do to a newspaper
add	যোগ করুন
create	তৈরি করুন
apply	বসান	Busy: বসানো হচ্ছে…
copy	কপি	Done state: কপি হয়েছে ✓
share	শেয়ার
export	এক্সপোর্ট
import	ইমপোর্ট
upload	আপলোড
download	ডাউনলোড
search (noun / the tab)	খোঁজ	Not সার্চ — Bengalis genuinely say বইটা খুঁজছি (§4's test)
search (verb)	খুঁজুন
filter (noun and verb)	ফিল্টার / ফিল্টার করুন	Nobody "ছাঁকে" a book list; this loan passes §4's test
sort	সাজান
group by	ভাগ	কী দিয়ে ভাগ করা হবে
select / deselect	বাছুন / বাছাই তুলুন	Not নির্বাচন করুন (bureaucratic)
show / hide	দেখান / লুকান	v3: the one-word imperative on a button; লুকিয়ে রাখুন only where a sentence means "keep it hidden"
close	বন্ধ করুন
confirm	নিশ্চিত করুন
done (the button that closes a step)	হয়ে গেছে	v3: শেষ is the shelf state (§3.6); a button that says "I am finished here" says হয়ে গেছে
got it	বুঝেছি
fetch (metadata)	আনুন	মেটাডেটা আনুন
fill gaps	শূন্যস্থান পূরণ	v3, the owner’s call: the exam-paper phrase fits a form with empty boxes too, and ফাঁক stays with the review interval
re-verify	আবার মিলিয়ে দেখুন
merge	এক করুন
re-sync	আবার সব আনুন
capture (a quote)	তুলে রাখুন	তুলে রাখা is exactly the Bengali for copying a line out and keeping it. This is the best word in the sheet — use it
approve / discard	মেনে নিন / ফেলে দিন
skip	বাদ দিন
reveal	দেখান
move up / move down	উপরে তুলুন / নিচে নামান
shelve	তাকে তুলুন
reload	রিলোড করুন	v3: the word a Bengali says at a browser
log out / sign in	লগ আউট / লগ ইন
reset	আগের মতো করুন	Not রিসেট করুন where "back to defaults" is meant

3.5 The quiz and the memory model

English	Bengali	Note
quiz	অনুশীলনী	v3.7 — কুইজ, then প্রশ্নোত্তর, now অনুশীলনী: the exercise set as a whole. প্রশ্নোত্তর is now one of its two card types
Daily quiz	দৈনিক অনুশীলনী	v3.6 — the owner reversed the "not দৈনিক" rule below
Practice (the named mode)	ঝালাই	v3.7 — প্র্যাকটিস, then অনুশীলন, now ঝালাই, because অনুশীলন went to Review. The verb stays ঝালিয়ে নিন
practise (the verb on a button)	ঝালিয়ে নিন	Bengali wins here. en.txt says the Practice/Practise split is one "no other language can reproduce" — Bengali reproduces it exactly, with a noun for the mode and a native verb for the act
review (the schedule, the deck)	অনুশীলন	v3.7 — রিভিশন retired, then রুটিন. The schedule itself is দিনপঞ্জি, so "review schedule" is অনুশীলনের দিনপঞ্জি
deck	ডেক
card	কার্ড
streak	টানা	টানা 12 দিন
score	স্কোর
half-life	অর্ধায়ু	In prose: স্মৃতির অর্ধায়ু. School-science Bengali, and short
forgetting curve	ভুলে যাওয়ার রেখা	Not বিস্মৃতি বক্ররেখা (a textbook decoding exercise)
spaced repetition	ফাঁক রেখে পুনরাবৃত্তি
remembered	মনে আছে
forgetting	ভুলছেন
probably forgotten	সম্ভবত ভুলে গেছেন
not yet reviewed	এখনও রিভিশন হয়নি
Got it / Forgot (the grades)	পেরেছি / ভুলে গেছি	First person — these are your own answers
Multiple choice	বহুনির্বাচনী	The school word every Bengali knows
Fill in the blank	শূন্যস্থান পূরণ	The exam-paper phrase. Since v3 the metadata action shares it; the screens are far enough apart that the context carries the difference
Flip and self-mark	উল্টে নিজে বিচার
Who said this?	কে বলেছে?
Name the source	কোন উৎস?
Pick the quote	কোন বাক্যটা?	v3: a quote's text is a বাক্য, not a লাইন
due now	এখনই দেখে নেওয়ার পালা	v3: a state line about a card, not an alarm
set it aside	সরিয়ে রাখুন

Whose fact is it? A shelf state describes the book (§3.6 — পড়া চলছে). A memory state describes you (ভুলছেন). A grade is your own answer (পেরেছি). Keep the person inside each family consistent; do not mix them.

3.6 Shelf states and progress

Third person, about the work — because a chip labels the book, not the reader, and six chips in three persons is exactly the drift this sheet exists to prevent.

English	Bengali	Note
Wishlist	উইশলিস্ট
Reading / Watching / Playing	পড়া চলছে / দেখা চলছে / খেলা চলছে	The app forks these by medium; so does Bengali
Paused	থেমে আছে
Abandoned	ছেড়ে দেওয়া
Completed	শেষ
Mark as read / watched / played	পড়া শেষ / দেখা শেষ / খেলা শেষ
Read it again / Watch it again	আবার পড়ুন / আবার দেখুন
Pick it back up / Carry on watching	আবার হাতে নিন / দেখা চালিয়ে যান	v3
Give up on it	ছেড়ে দিন
progress	কতদূর	কতদূর পড়েছেন — the native phrase, and short
read log / watch log	পড়ার খাতা / দেখার খাতা	খাতা = a ledger. Not হিসেব, which is the Stats tab
still going	চলছে
×N re-reads	×{n}	§8 — a symbol

3.7 Screens, chrome and gestures

English	Bengali	Note
Home	হোম
Library	গ্রন্থাগার	v3.6 — the owner's ruling; লাইব্রেরি retired
Catalogue	ক্যাটালগ
Quotes (the tab)	উক্তি	§2.5 — the tab holds only standalone quotes
Anthologies	সংকলন
Tags	ট্যাগ
Metadata	মেটাডেটা
Checks (the screen)	যাচাইকরণ	v3.6 — folds Stray marks and pending imports; checks.title
Stats	পরিসংখ্যান	v3.6. হিসেব stays for a record — অনুশীলনের হিসেব, ঘাটতির হিসেব — and হিসেবে ("as") is a different word entirely
Settings	সেটিংস
Profile	প্রোফাইল
Account	অ্যাকাউন্ট
Search (the tab)	খোঁজ
Pending import	যাচাই বাকি ইমপোর্ট	Was অপেক্ষায় ইমপোর্ট; objects do not wait, and the later ruling in অপেক্ষা is not for objects below is what staging.title says
The bin	ডাস্টবিন	v3
Activity (the calendar)	ক্যালেন্ডার	v3: the help panel had always called the same grid Calendar; heading, tab tip and help term now say one word. রোজনামচা was lovely and nobody looked for it
Memory	স্মৃতি
Breakdown	কে কত	Deliberately non-literal: the section is "the authors and tags your library leans on", and this is how a Bengali subhead says it. breakdown kind → কীসের হিসেব
Superlatives	সবচেয়ে
Timeline	সময়রেখা
Coverage	ঘাটতি	One word for "how many are missing each field"
Duplicates	ডুপ্লিকেট
Feature (a section switch)	ফিচার
Section	বিভাগ
Screen	স্ক্রিন
Tab	ট্যাব
Tab strip	ট্যাব-সারি
Top bar / bottom bar	উপরের বার / নিচের বার
Drawer	ড্রয়ার
Chip	চিপ
Sheet (a full-screen surface)	প্যানেল
Toast (in prose only)	বার্তা	Never a label; it appears inside sentences like "The toast offers an Undo" → নিচের বার্তায় আনডু থাকবে
View (tiles / list / table)	ভিউ
Tiles / List / Table	টাইল / তালিকা / টেবিল
Info dot	ইনফো ডট	v3: ডট wherever a dot is meant. ফুটকি is homely and dated — nobody under sixty says it about a screen
Status dot	স্মৃতির ডট
Hover label	হোভার লেবেল
Keyboard shortcut	কীবোর্ড শর্টকাট
Long press	চেপে ধরা
Swipe left / up	বাঁয়ে সোয়াইপ / উপরে সোয়াইপ
Pinch in / out	পিঞ্চ ইন / পিঞ্চ আউট	A borrowed gesture keeps its borrowed name
Two fingers left	দুই আঙুলে বাঁয়ে
Theme	থিম
Light / Dark	হালকা / গাঢ়
Match system	সিস্টেম যেমন
Accent	অ্যাকসেন্ট
Type (the typography card)	ফন্ট	v3: the card’s title is the thing it sets. হরফ stays for a script or letterform in prose — রোমান হরফে, বাংলা হরফ
Font	ফন্ট
Backup / restore	ব্যাকআপ / ফিরিয়ে আনা
Password / passphrase / username	পাসওয়ার্ড / পাসফ্রেজ / ইউজারনেম
Source (a metadata supplier)	সূত্র	সূত্র: গুগল বুকস — how Bengali journalism cites. Distinct from উৎস (the work)
Favourite	প্রিয়	Not ফেভারিট. ♥ প্রিয়
Margin	মার্জিন	The epigraphs live here
Tour / Onboarding	ট্যুর / প্রথম পরিচয়

That is 130 rows. If your word is not among them, §3's opening paragraph tells you what to do.

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§4. THE LOANWORD RULE

4.1 The rule, in one test

Would a Bengali speaker use this Bengali word for this act or thing in conversation, away from a screen?

Yes → use the Bengali word. No → use the loan, in Bengali script.

That is the whole rule, and it decides the awkward cases correctly. খোঁজা passes — a Bengali says বইটা খুঁজছি. ছাঁকা fails — nobody sieves a book list, so ফিল্টার. মুছে ফেলা passes — so মুছুন, not ডিলিট. ব্যবহারকারী fails — it exists only inside translated software, so ইউজার.

The test is asymmetric on purpose, and both directions matter:

• An over-Sanskritised coinage is the worse failure, because the reader has to decode it before they can act. বিস্মৃতি বক্ররেখা costs a beat of thought; ভুলে যাওয়ার রেখা costs none. If a word would need a gloss, it is the wrong word.
• An unnecessary loan is the lazier failure. It costs nothing to read but it throws away a word the reader already owns, and three writers reaching for loans will reach for different ones.

Never leave a loan in Latin script. কভার, not cover. The only Latin in bn.txt is the never-translate list in §8.

4.2 Nine that stay as loans, in Bengali script

Loan	Why the Bengali would be wrong
কভার / পোস্টার	পোস্টার has no Bengali at all, and splitting the pair across registers is worse than borrowing both
ট্যাগ	চিহ্ন / আখ্যা are both something else; ট্যাগ is what people say
ফাইল	নথি is an office file, not a .md
ইমপোর্ট / এক্সপোর্ট	আমদানি / রপ্তানি are trade words. Comic here
সেটিংস	বিন্যাস / সংস্থাপন are decode-me words
ইউজার	ব্যবহারকারী exists only in translated software
এডিট	সম্পাদনা is what you do to a newspaper
সিনেমা	চলচ্চিত্র is the register of a government film-board notice
ফিল্টার	Nobody strains a list. This is a borrowed control and it keeps its borrowed name

কুইজ left this list on 29 September. It stood here beside v3.7's quiz → অনুশীলনী (§3.5), and 17 strings still said the loan while the screens they described said অনুশীলনী. Asked which one stands, the owner: "অনুশীলনী it is". Every value that meant the quiz now says অনুশীলনী; the one that meant the practice mode (home.help.practice.what, "Unlimited quiz practice") says ঝালাই, the mode's name. test/rules/bengali-keeps-the-sheets-words.test.js fails on a কুইজ that comes back. পরীক্ষা is still wrong for it, as the loan's row said: it is an exam, and this is not one.

Also loans, on the same reasoning: বোর্ড, স্টিকার, সিল, নোট, সেভ, কপি, শেয়ার, আপলোড, ডাউনলোড, মেটাডেটা, ব্যাকআপ, পাসওয়ার্ড, অ্যাকাউন্ট, অ্যাডমিন, আনডু, বিন, ডেক, কার্ড, স্কোর, চিপ, ভিউ, টাইল, টেবিল, ফন্ট, থিম, সিজন, এপিসোড, লোকেশন, শো, সিরিজ, গেম, টাইটেল, স্টুডিও, ট্যুর, প্র্যাকটিস, রিভিশন, ক্যালেন্ডার, ড্রয়ার, প্যানেল, সোয়াইপ, পিঞ্চ, ডুপ্লিকেট।

4.3 Ten that get real Bengali, and the loan that is barred

English	Bengali	The barred loan	Why
search	খোঁজ / খুঁজুন	সার্চ	খোঁজা is core everyday Bengali for looking for a thing
favourite	প্রিয়	ফেভারিট	প্রিয় is warmer, shorter and exact
delete	মুছুন	ডিলিট	মুছে ফেলা is what you do to writing
page	পৃষ্ঠা (পৃ.)	পেজ	Every Bengali book prints পৃ.
chapter	অধ্যায়	চ্যাপ্টার	Ditto
author / actor / director	লেখক / অভিনেতা / পরিচালক	অথর / অ্যাক্টর / ডিরেক্টর	All three are ordinary Bengali; the loans are film-magazine slang
genre	ঘরানা	জেনার	ঘরানা is what Bengali criticism uses
colour	রং	কালার
shelf	তাক	শেলফ
anthology	সংকলন	অ্যান্থোলজি	সংকলন is exactly this and nothing else
progress	কতদূর	প্রোগ্রেস	কতদূর পড়েছেন — the native phrasing, and it fits the slot

4.4 Ten coinages named so nobody reinvents them

These are what a dictionary or a machine will hand you. Each is barred, with what to write instead:

চলচ্চিত্র → সিনেমা · ব্যবহারকারী → ইউজার · সংরক্ষণ করুন → সেভ · সম্পাদনা → এডিট · অনুসন্ধান → খোঁজ · পরিসংখ্যান → হিসেব · রেখাঙ্কন / আলোকপাত → দাগ · নির্বাচন করুন → বাছুন · অপসারণ করুন → সরান · প্রদর্শন করুন → দেখান · বিন্যাস → সাজান · বিস্মৃতি বক্ররেখা → ভুলে যাওয়ার রেখা · পুনরুদ্ধার করুন → ফিরিয়ে আনুন · অনুগ্রহপূর্বক → (delete it; Bengali UI does not say please)

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§5. SENTENCE STRATEGY

5.1 The four moves, before the examples

Bengali is SOV and postpositional. A clause order carried from English is the clearest possible tell that a line was translated, and it is also what breaks the length budget (§6). Four moves fix almost everything:

1. The verb goes last. So an English sentence whose punchline is at the end must be restructured, not re-ordered — because in Bengali the end of the sentence is reserved for the verb, not for the point.
2. Prepositions become postpositions, after the noun. with its quotes → তার উদ্ধৃতি নিয়ে. Never string সহ through a sentence the way English strings with.
3. Relative clauses take the যে…সে correlative, at the front. English hangs a qualifying clause off the back of a noun (every book you have nothing from yet); Bengali puts the যে-clause first and picks it up with সে/সেটা. A trailing participle chain (এখনও কিছু রাখা হয়নি এমন প্রতিটি বই) is the calque's signature.
4. Break an em-dash appositive into its own short sentence when the second half carries a new verb. Bengali takes the dash fine, but a dash plus a full second predicate reads as two sentences with the stop missing.

5.2 Three worked examples

Each is a real string from internal/i18n/en.txt. Lengths are String.length, which is what help-budget.test.js measures; .what is capped at 160.

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A. home.help.daily-quiz.what — 145 characters of English

A short multiple-choice round over your own quotes, scheduled on the forgetting curve — each card comes back right as you would start to lose it.

Calque — 165 characters, and it fails the test:

আপনার নিজের উদ্ধৃতিগুলির উপর একটি সংক্ষিপ্ত বহুনির্বাচনী রাউন্ড, বিস্মৃতি বক্ররেখার উপর নির্ধারিত — প্রতিটি কার্ড ঠিক তখনই ফিরে আসে যখন আপনি এটিকে হারাতে শুরু করবেন।

Written in Bengali — 118 characters:

নিজের উদ্ধৃতি নিয়ে ছোট একটা রাউন্ড — উত্তর বেছে নেওয়ার ধাঁচে। ভুলতে শুরু করার ঠিক মুখেই কার্ডটা আবার সামনে এসে পড়ে।

What moved: আপনার dropped (§1.3). -গুলির dropped — no plural marker after a mass reference. উপর dropped twice; the calque's উদ্ধৃতিগুলির উপর is a literal over, and Bengali says নিয়ে. নির্ধারিত — a hanging passive participle with no agent — deleted entirely, and the scheduling fact moved into the second sentence where it belongs. বিস্মৃতি বক্ররেখা would have needed decoding, and the sentence does not actually need the term: the behaviour is the point, and the term itself is a linked label elsewhere (home.states.help.curve.label). যখন…করবেন — a trailing English as-clause — became a front-loaded ভুলতে শুরু করার ঠিক মুখেই, and the verb went to the end.

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B. bin.help.what-is-here.what — 120 characters of English

Everything you delete waits here first — a book with all its quotes, a film with its lines, or one highlight on its own.

Calque — 142 characters:

আপনি যা কিছু মুছে ফেলেন সবকিছু প্রথমে এখানে অপেক্ষা করে — তার সমস্ত উদ্ধৃতি সহ একটি বই, তার লাইনসমূহ সহ একটি চলচ্চিত্র, অথবা একা একটি হাইলাইট।

Written in Bengali — 106 characters:

মুছে ফেলা সবকিছু আগে এখানেই জমা থাকে — গোটা বই তার সব দাগ নিয়ে, সিনেমা তার সংলাপ নিয়ে, বা শুধু একটা দাগ।

What moved: আপনি যা কিছু… — a whole English relative clause — collapsed into the participle মুছে ফেলা, which is how Bengali says it in three syllables. অপেক্ষা করে is a calque of waits; Bengali says জমা থাকে of a thing being held somewhere. সহ twice → নিয়ে twice, after the noun (§5.1.2). -সমূহ deleted. চলচ্চিত্র → সিনেমা, হাইলাইট → দাগ (§3, §4). একা একটি হাইলাইট was word-level nonsense; শুধু একটা দাগ is the meaning. And এখানেই — the emphatic -ই — carries the English first without a word for it.

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C. settings.features.intro.prose — 114 characters of English

Turn off what you do not keep, and on what you have not tried yet. This changes what you see, never what you have.

Calque — 136 characters:

আপনি যা রাখেন না তা বন্ধ করুন, এবং যা আপনি এখনও চেষ্টা করেননি তা চালু করুন। এটি আপনি যা দেখেন তা পরিবর্তন করে, আপনার যা আছে তা কখনও নয়।

Written in Bengali — 106 characters:

যেটা কাজে লাগে না, বন্ধ করে দিন; যেটা এখনও দেখেননি, চালু করুন। এতে চোখের সামনেরটা বদলায়, জমানো কিছুই নয়।

What moved: the English's parallel is turn off X, and on Y — a gapped construction Bengali cannot gap. So it becomes a true যেটা…, verb; যেটা…, verb parallel with a semicolon, which is stronger in Bengali than in English. এটি at the head of the second sentence — the giveaway translated This — became এতে. পরিবর্তন করে → বদলায়: one Bengali verb for an English light-verb phrase, and this trade is available almost every time you see -করে. আপনার যা আছে তা কখনও নয় → জমানো কিছুই নয়: the app's own idea is what you have collected, and Bengali has a participle for it.

5.3 Punctuation, in the same spirit

• The em dash survives where it introduces an appositive list (example B). It does not survive where the second half is a full clause with its own verb (example A) — that becomes a দাঁড়ি and a new sentence.
• A semicolon is stronger in Bengali than in English for a two-part parallel (example C). Use it.
• en.txt allows a .what at most two sentences. The test's sentence-counter looks for a capital letter after a stop, so it cannot see Bengali at all — the check is honestly inert for you. Hold yourself to two sentences anyway; the cap in §6 is the only thing that will catch you otherwise.
• Info dots (*.info.body) are capped at 240 characters and at four sentences. The same counter, the same blindness. Three sentences, please.

5.4 Button and label grammar — decided

A button is an action word, not a sentence. Use the bare form where Bengali has one (সেভ, বাতিল, কপি, শেয়ার, ইমপোর্ট, এক্সপোর্ট, ফিল্টার, খোঁজ, এডিট); use the polite imperative -উন / -ন where Bengali has no natural bare noun (মুছুন, দেখুন, বাছুন, আনুন, সাজান, বসান).

The test for which: would a Bengali speaker say this word alone, in answer to "what does this button do?" If yes, it stands alone. If not, it takes করুন / -উন.

Everything else takes the imperative in full: hints, confirms, empty states, help sentences, tooltips that are instructions rather than names.

Four more label rules:

• The app speaks to the reader, not the reader to the app. The owner's, 26 September, over the tour button: "bengali usually uses the system to tell the user, that is more natural, unlike english." English often writes a control in the reader's own voice: Show me around this screen is the reader asking the app. Bengali reads more naturally as the app inviting the reader: এই পাতাটা ঘুরে দেখুন (have a look around this page), not এই পাতাটা ঘুরিয়ে দেখান (show me around this page). So translate the intent, and write the Bengali as the app addressing the reader even where the English is in the reader's voice.
• A tooltip names the control or says what pressing it will do — it never describes the current state. en.txt is explicit about the favourite toggle: it says Add to favourites, not Not a favourite. So: প্রিয়তে রাখুন / প্রিয় থেকে সরান.
• {noun}, {name}, {field} and {subject} are dropped into a frame by the caller. Bengali case markers attach to the noun, and you cannot see the noun. So write the frame so it needs no marker on the hole: {noun} মুছুন works; {noun}কে মুছুন will produce বইকে মুছুন and উক্তিকে মুছুন and one of them will be wrong. Keep the hole bare.
• Five words or fewer on every label (house rule). A করুন-compound counts as one word.

5.5 The set-pieces that are written, not translated

Four blocks in en.txt are voice, not information. Translating them word by word will produce something limp. Re-write them as Bengali, keeping the shape and the length.

• greeting.epigraph.1–10 — ten aphorisms about margins. These are the app's thesis. Write ten Bengali aphorisms that say the same ten things, in the same clipped shape. This is where মার্জিন and টিপ্পনী (the practice, §2.1) belong.
• greeting.bucket.*, greeting.weekend.*, greeting.sunday.* — time-of-day greetings with {name}. Keep them short and keep আপনি: এখনও জেগে আছেন, {name}?
• greeting.holiday.* — about 130 of them. Do not translate a day's name; write the Bengali frame around it. Happy X → শুভ {day}; Marking X → আজ {day}. Days that already have Bengali names get them: অমর একুশে, শহিদ দিবস, স্বাধীনতা দিবস, বিজয় দিবস, প্রজাতন্ত্র দিবস, গান্ধী জয়ন্তী, পয়লা বৈশাখ. Every other country's day is transliterated into Bengali script, not translated: বাস্তিল দিবস, ওয়েটাঙ্গি দিবস. Two lines in en.txt are already Bengali (bd.02-21.2, in.04-14.1) — keep them verbatim.
• stats.timeline.gap.* — fifteen wry one-liners about empty centuries, in four length tiers. Re-write, do not translate; keep the tier's length and the dry tone. They end in a দাঁড়ি like any Bengali sentence, and Bengali has no lower case to preserve.

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§6. LENGTH DISCIPLINE

6.1 The measured facts

Measured against real strings from this file:

• Written in Bengali, a sentence runs about 0.8× the English by String.length, and about 0.55× by visible letters. Bengali packs a syllable into a cluster where English spends two or three letters, so a well-written Bengali line is shorter on screen than the English it replaces. You have room.
• A calque runs about 1.35× the good Bengali version — 1.28×, 1.34× and 1.40× on the three examples in §5.2. This is the point: the budget is not tight, and if you are fighting it you have not written a Bengali sentence, you have translated an English one. Example A's calque failed the 160 cap; its Bengali cleared it by 42 characters.
• A Bengali cluster is about 1.6 code units, so String.length overcounts Bengali relative to what the eye sees. Never estimate by eye when you are near a cap.

6.2 The caps, and where they are enforced

web/frontend/test/rules/help-budget.test.js, run over bn.txt as well as en.txt:

Role	Cap (String.length)	Also
*.help.*.what	160	at most 2 sentences
*.help.*.how.N	120	at most 3 lines, numbered 1..N with no gap
*.help.*.more	420
*.info.body	240	at most 3 sentences (infodot-copy.test.js)

.what may never be left out while .more is written — an entry whose visible half is its own heading fails.

6.3 Controls, and the slots that will not stretch

The rule for a label that must fit a control: it may not exceed the English's visible letter count. Count clusters, not code units — Bengali will usually come in well under. Where it cannot, the shorter word wins over the more accurate one; en.txt says so itself about the badges.

Named slots, with the decision made for you:

Slot	English	Bengali	Rule
common.badge.cover / poster / none	COVER / POSTER / NONE	কভার / পোস্টার / নেই	≤ 4 clusters. Small caps do nothing to Bengali; that is expected, not a bug
common.badge.book / film / show / quote	BOOK / FILM / SHOW / QUOTE	বই / সিনেমা / শো / উদ্ধৃতি
common.badge.director / created-by / studio	DIR. / CREATED BY / STUDIO	পরি. / নির্মাতা / স্টুডিও
common.month.jan…dec	Jan…Dec	জানু ফেব মার্চ এপ্রি মে জুন জুলা আগ সেপ অক্টো নভে ডিসে	≤ 4 clusters; they sit in a 3-column grid
common.locator.chapter	CH. {name}	অধ্যা. {name}
common.locator.page	P. {n}	পৃ. {n}
common.position.episode / episode-season	E{a} / {a} · S{b}	unchanged	§8 — a one-letter code beside a Western digit is a symbol, not a word
common.half-life.*	{n}h {n}d {n}w {n}mo	unchanged	Same reasoning
common.slider.multiplier / shelf.reads	{n}× / ×{n}	unchanged
import.help.flow.*	file / pending / library / approve	ফাইল / যাচাই / গ্রন্থাগার / মেনে নিন	Fixed 52–68px mono boxes. Abbreviate rather than overflow — and see §0.5: these draw in an OS fallback face
common.progress.unit.*	% / pages / episodes	% / পৃষ্ঠা / এপিসোড
common.mono.*	colour, group, tag, speaker…	রং, ভাগ, ট্যাগ, বক্তা…	One word each; mono slot

Mono slots are the one place Bengali is at a disadvantage (§0.5), so treat every mono label as a hard budget: one word, as short as the sense allows, and if the Bengali needs two words the slot is the reason to find a shorter one.

6.4 When you cannot get inside a cap

In order:

1. Cut the qualifier the English put in and Bengali does not need — আপনার, একটি, এটি, -গুলো, সমস্ত.
2. Replace a -করে light-verb phrase with the single Bengali verb (পরিবর্তন করে → বদলায়).
3. Move the second half into .more if the entry has one.
4. Only then mark it # !! (§7) and leave the long line in. Do not truncate to a fragment that no longer says the thing — a half sentence inside the cap is worse than a full one over it, and the owner would rather see the flag.

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§7. THE MARKING CONVENTION

Markers are comment lines directly above the key, never inside the value — §0.2: the parser ships everything after the first = to the screen, so an inline marker would appear in the interface.

Two markers, both greppable, both distinct at a glance:

# ?? not sure "সিল" reads as a seal rather than a rubber stamp
common.action.seal.label = সিল

# !! 178 — could not get it under 160 without dropping the schedule fact
home.help.daily-quiz.what = …

• # ?? — I am not sure of this line. Wording, term choice, register, whether a shared key can carry one Bengali word. Say what you are unsure of in one clause. If your doubt is about a term, also add the row to ## Additions at the foot of this file so the other two writers see the same question once.
• # !! — this line is too long. Give the character count first, then one clause on what you would have to lose to fit it. Use it for a control label that will not fit its slot as well as for a budget failure — the owner cannot see slot overflow from the file.

Both markers are temporary. Delete the comment when the doubt is resolved or the line is cut; a marker left behind after the fix is a false alarm the owner has to re-check.

The owner scans for these first:

grep -n '^# [?!][?!]' internal/i18n/bn.txt

So put nothing else in a comment starting # ? or # !. Genuine translator context — the notes that explain where a string appears — is copied down from en.txt verbatim, in en.txt's own order, as the README asks; those comments start with a capital or a dash and will not collide.

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§8. NEVER TRANSLATE THESE

Not a style preference — each of these breaks something.

1. {phrase} in the bulk delete confirms. src/bulkOps.jsx's deletePhrase() builds an English string (delete 3 books) because the Go server compares it byte for byte. Write the Bengali sentence so the reader understands they must type the words shown, and never gloss or translate the phrase itself: নিশ্চিত করতে {phrase} লিখে দিন। The file's own comment says translating it means changing both sides in one commit, which is not this pass.
2. common.filmstrip.edge.label = TIPPANI · SAFETY FILM — branding artwork. en.txt says DO NOT TRANSLATE. Leave it.
3. vocab.source.* — Google Books, Open Library, Amazon, TMDB, TheTVDB, IMDb, IGDB. Proper nouns. Transliteration is permitted; renaming is not. vocab.source.unknown.label is translated: অজানা সূত্র.
4. vocab.face.*.name — the eighteen typeface names. Transliteration permitted, and the .note beside each one is translated.
5. The two script specimens — vocab.font-role.bengali.sample (already Bengali; keep it verbatim) and vocab.font-role.devanagari.sample (must stay Devanagari). Every other .sample should be replaced with a line this role would really carry in Bengali, not translated — that is what a specimen is for.
6. vocab.key.* — ⌘, Ctrl, Space, Esc, Shift. The reader is looking at a keyboard, and the keyboard is in Latin. Same for every shortcut letter in shell.shortcut.*: /, N, ?, G then H/L/C/Q/S, 1, 2. common.kbd.then.label is a word and does translate: তারপর.
7. common.field.date.placeholder = YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD — keep it Latin. The field accepts Western digits and hyphens, so the placeholder is a picture of what to type; বববব-মম-দদ would describe it in a script the field will never contain. Same for film.line.form.timestamp.placeholder = HH:MM:SS.
8. Field identifiers as words — ISBN, ASIN, TMDB id, TheTVDB id, IMDb id, IGDB id, API, PNG, SVG, .md, JSON, Markdown, Obsidian, WhatsApp, Reddit, Kindle, Goodreads, Docker, LAN, URL. All appear as themselves.
9. Version numbers and dates — v{version}, 1.17.0, 2026-07-14.
10. The search grammar tokens. search.help.colon.how.1 and .how.2 list the field prefixes the box accepts: tag: author: colour: speaker: actor: character: director: genre: series: shelf: year: favourite: note: wishlist: book: movie:. The parser accepts these English words. Leave every one of them exactly as it is — a Bengali reader typing ট্যাগ: would get nothing. The prose around them is translated; the tokens are not. The same goes for note\: in search.help.escaped-colon.more.

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§9. Working order

1. Copy en.txt's structure into bn.txt: same key order, same section banners, same context comments, as the README asks — so the two files read side by side. The _TEMPLATE.txt the app writes into data/Locales/ lists every key with the English as a comment, which is the mechanical way to see what is still missing.
2. Fill values. An empty value counts as absent, so a key you have not reached costs you nothing but coverage — the picker reports the real percentage and no test fails for incompleteness.
3. Never add a key en.txt does not have, and never delete one it does.
4. Before handing in: run the two budget tests (§0), then grep -n '^# [?!][?!]' internal/i18n/bn.txt and read your own flags back. If a flag no longer applies, delete it.

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Additions

(Writers: append a row here for any term not in §3. English | your Bengali | one line of reason. Then mark the key # ?? .)

From writer 1 (the shell and the controls)

English	Bengali	Reason
move (to a board, to a shelf)	পাঠান	§3.4 gives remove → সরান, so Move cannot also be সরান. বোর্ডে পাঠান is what a Bengali says
set (the small commit button in the progress editor)	রাখুন	apply is already বসান; this button just keeps a number. v3: রাখুন, not দিন
window (a pop-up over the screen)	উইন্ডো	§3.7 has প্যানেল for a full-screen sheet; a floating window is not that
item	জিনিস	The generic countable. আইটেম is an avoidable loan
issue (a metadata console finding)	সমস্যা
row (of a table)	সারি
outcome (finished / abandoned)	কী হল	The read log's third column. v3: a column head asks the question; পরিণতি is a verdict
interface (the font role)	ইন্টারফেস	Marked # ?? — a mouthful, but the role's name
default (colour slot 1's name)	সাধারণ	v3 settled the # ?? : beside five Bengali category names the loan read as the odd one out, and "the ordinary slot" is what this one is
flip card	উল্টে দেখার কার্ড	§3.5 has flip and self-mark → উল্টে নিজে বিচার; the card itself needed a noun. v3: the card you turn over to look
adaptive (the interval mode)	অ্যাডাপ্টিভ	v3: the loan is the word the reader has met in every app that has the feature; card title অ্যাডাপ্টিভ ফাঁক
ladder (the 7 → 30 → 100 interval ladder)	সিঁড়ি	The metaphor is the same one in Bengali
appearance (the Settings card)	চেহারা
help (the sheet)	সাহায্য
style (the font-modifier card, a tag’s drawing style)	স্টাইল	v3. ধাঁচ survives only in the typeface notes, where it means a face’s look (চৌকো ধাঁচ)
auto	অটো
tools (the second nav landmark)	সরঞ্জাম
unit (progress unit)	একক
BCE / circa	খ্রি.পূ. / আনু.	Both go BEFORE the year in Bengali, which is why en.txt keys all four year shapes
tabular figures (the English said "lining" until v3)	সারিবদ্ধ সংখ্যা	Says what tabular-nums does rather than naming the feature — which is why the Bengali did not have to change when the English was corrected
Latin (the script)	লাতিন

From the migration of the eight unreached files

English	Bengali	Reason
flyout (a tag chip shape)	নিশান	The shape is a pennant, notched to a point underneath. ফ্লাইআউট is a loan that means nothing away from a screen; v3 kept নিশান
banner (a tag chip shape)	ব্যানার	A horizontal strip notched on the right; the loan is what a Bengali says for a strip that hangs

From the last three screens (StagingPage, MetadataPage, Settings)

The pass that closed the migration. Every row here is marked # ?? at its key except where noted.

English	Bengali	Reason
queue (the list of things waiting)	অপেক্ষার তালিকা	§3.7 has Pending import → অপেক্ষায় ইমপোর্ট but no word for the queue itself. Shortened to তালিকা where the header already says the rest. Note it now does two jobs — তালিকা is also §3.7's List view
staged (held in the pending queue)	জমা	§5.2's own worked example uses জমা থাকে for a thing being held somewhere, which is exactly this state
field (a form box or table column)	ঘর	v3: ঘর is what a Bengali calls a box on a form. রঙের ঘর keeps its own row, and the two never meet in one sentence
group (a cluster of rows)	গ্রুপ	Passes §4.1's conversation test outright. বিভাগ is §3.7's Section, and দল — which one agent reached for independently — also means a team or a party, which is misleading about two copies of one book. One word, used by both screens
formula (the location arithmetic)	ফর্মুলা	সূত্র is taken for a metadata source (§3.7)
operation (an arithmetic op in a Select)	কাজ	প্রক্রিয়া is the noticeboard register §1.1 keeps out, and the slot is mono, so one short word
range (a page span like 610-612)	রেঞ্জ	পরিসর is a shade formal for a page span
enriched (metadata fetched on approval)	মেটাডেটা পেয়েছে	No single Bengali verb; the phrase says what actually happened
un-♥ (the compact unfavourite button)	♥ সরান	The English is itself a coinage; Bengali says take the ♥ off
maintenance	দেখভাল	রক্ষণাবেক্ষণ is exactly the noticeboard register §1.1 exists to keep out
console (a screen you work AT)	কনসোল	§3.7 has স্ক্রিন and প্যানেল, neither of which is this
detail (one filled metadata field)	তথ্য	The fetch tally counts details filled; খুঁটিনাটি is a mass noun and will not take টি
run (the button on a phone action card)	চালান	§3.4 has no row for it
flagged (a row with at least one gap)	সমস্যা আছে	Leans on issue → সমস্যা above; দাগানো would collide with দাগ (a highlight)
low-res	ঝাপসা	The homely word for a soft picture, two clusters, fits the mono tile where কম রেজলিউশন cannot
cast	কাস্ট	Not marked — bn.txt already said কাস্ট twice before this pass (common.work.resync.info.body, film.fetch.info.body). common.field.cast.label briefly said অভিনেতারা, a third word for one thing; corrected to match
editor (the form inside a console row)	এডিটর	§3.4 gives edit → এডিট but no noun for the form
look up (ask the sources about one row)	খুঁজে দেখুন	Distinct from খোঁজ (the Search tab) and from আনুন (fetch): this one only looks
remap (re-point a speaker at a cast member)	বদল	নতুন করে বসানো is accurate and unusable on a heading
mapping (one label paired with one member)	জোড়া	Also used by error.validate.mapping-required
reference page (an external page about a person)	তথ্যসূত্রের পাতা	v3: says what the link is for; পরিচিতির পাতা loses that these are external
amp (the & chip's spoken name)	অ্যান্ড চিহ্ন	অ্যাম্পারস্যান্ড is unreadable in a chip's aria and names a glyph nobody says aloud
and (the “and” chip's spoken name)	“and” শব্দ	The chip draws the English word the splitter actually matches (§8), so the Latin stays and only the frame around it is Bengali
roadmap	রোডম্যাপ	পরিকল্পনা is form-Bengali; রোডম্যাপ is what people say about a project's plan
pairing code	পেয়ারিং কোড	v3, with pair / unpair → পেয়ার করুন / আনপেয়ার করুন: the phone’s own Bluetooth screen taught the reader these words

From the stray-marks pass (cleanup.*)

Eight rule names and the page they sit on. All eight had to be nameable in a chip, so the constraint was length as much as sense.

English	Bengali	Reason
stray marks (the screen)	বাড়তি চিহ্ন	v3: the marks are extra rather than untidy — বাড়তি says what the page finds. অবাঞ্ছিত is form-Bengali
footnote	পাদটীকা	A school word every reader owns, and the only Bengali for it. Not টীকা alone, which §2.2 keeps clear of টিপ্পনী
punctuation	যতিচিহ্ন	Also a school word. চিহ্ন alone is any mark at all
space (the typographic one)	স্পেস	v3: জোড়া স্পেস, নো-ব্রেক স্পেস — the key on the keyboard is what the reader knows. ফাঁক stays for the spaced-repetition interval
hyphen	হাইফেন	§4's gap-filling loan: Bengali has no everyday word for the mark, and যোজক চিহ্ন needs a gloss
pronunciation gloss	উচ্চারণের নির্দেশ	উচ্চারণ is everyday; the নির্দেশ is what makes it a dictionary's note rather than the act of speaking
invisible (of a character)	অদৃশ্য	Everyday, and exactly the point: the character is there and cannot be seen
dot (of an ellipsis)	ডট	The rule's copy names three dots rather than borrowing “ellipsis”, which nobody says. v3: ডট, like every other dot

From the jobs pass (3.1.0, Settings › Jobs)

Settings grew a sixth section for the server's queue and its logs. The five term rows here, and three kinds' names (lookup-person, notify-test, person-save), were marked # ?? at their keys; on the owner's "F7: do your best" (28 September) the session kept all eight as they stand and turned the marks into # bn: notes. The owner may still correct any. The rest of the section's words are the sheet's own (থামান, আবার চালান, এক্সপোর্ট, অপেক্ষার তালিকা, বাকি).

English	Bengali	Reason
job (one run of a fill, a fetch, a backup)	কাজ	The everyday word — ব্যাকআপের কাজটা চলছে. The table above already gives কাজ to an arithmetic operation in a mono Select; the two never share a screen
log (a job's, the server's)	লগ	The word a programmer says aloud; খাতা stays the read log's ledger (§3.6), which is a record a reader keeps, not one a machine writes
level (of a log line)	স্তর	Names the error / warning / info tiers as a group; each chip names its own tier
request (an HTTP request, as a log level and a job kind)	রিকোয়েস্ট	অনুরোধ is a favour asked of a person, which is not what a browser sends
failed (a job's end, on a chip)	ব্যর্থ	Short enough for a chip. A count of failures keeps the sheet's পারা গেল না, which is a sentence

A waiting job is বাকি in a count and অপেক্ষার তালিকায় as a state — the job is in the queue, and nothing inanimate is said to wait (v3.7).

Already in bn.txt from an earlier pass and therefore NOT marked, listed only so nobody re-decides them: Updates আপডেট · Changelog চেঞ্জলগ · version ভার্সন · release রিলিজ · cookie কুকি. Changed in v3: API key and archive key are both চাবি (কি was a homonym of the question particle, and the two keys are one idea) · pair / unpair পেয়ার করুন / আনপেয়ার করুন.

Settled on the owner's "F7: do your best", 28 September

The 3.1.0 jobs work drafted its sentences for the owner: 54 lines, each marked # ?? draft for the owner (3.1.0…) at its key, put to the owner as F7 of Design-decisions §18 (Decisions awaiting my ruling). The owner's answer, on 28 September, was "F7: do your best". So the session settled them, on that answer. The owner did not rule on any one of them. The owner is the authority on the language and may correct any of them, and a correction replaces the line at its key and in the tables below.

Each line was read against its English in en.txt and against the same words wherever bn.txt already had them, so that one English term has one Bengali term. The mark came off. Where the choice was not obvious, a # bn: comment above the key says what was chosen and why, and names the other rendering where there were two. The words the six passes share were checked across all of them, and agree: job কাজ (Settings → Jobs is সেটিংস → কাজ-এ), the queue অপেক্ষার তালিকা, a waiting job অপেক্ষার তালিকায় as a state and বাকি in a count, running চলছে, stopped থামানো হয়েছে on a chip and থামানো হল in a toast, interrupted মাঝপথে থেমেছে, log লগ, backup ব্যাকআপ, import ইমপোর্ট, approve মেনে নিন with its noun মেনে নেওয়া, and Stop, Run and Run again থামান, চালান and আবার চালান. Two had drifted and were brought back to this sheet:

• A screen is স্ক্রিন (v3.1). Two import drafts said পর্দা.
• An archive that is "sealed" is এনক্রিপ্ট করা (v3.1), as every other backup line says it. The safety copy's step said সিল করা, so its three older lines moved with its new one: settings.safety.why.prose and the two password labels under it, which date from 25 September and were never drafts. The step now says one word.

Five lines changed from their drafts. The other 49 stand as drafted.

Key	Draft	Settled	Why
import.queued.note	…এই পর্দা ছেড়ে গেলেও…	…এই স্ক্রিন ছেড়ে গেলেও…	স্ক্রিন (v3.1)
staging.approving.away	এই পর্দা ছেড়ে গেলেও এটা চলতে থাকবে — সেটিংস → কাজ-এ পাবেন।	এই স্ক্রিন ছেড়ে গেলেও মেনে নেওয়া চলতে থাকবে — সেটিংস → কাজ-এ পাবেন।	স্ক্রিন; and it names the approval, as reverify.checking.away names the check, where the draft's এটা was a translated it (§1.3)
settings.safety.wait.prose	কপিটা সার্ভারে একটা কাজ হিসেবে সিল করা হয়, …	কপিটা সার্ভারে একটা কাজ হিসেবে এনক্রিপ্ট করা হয়, …	"sealed" is এনক্রিপ্ট করা (v3.1)
settings.safety.stopped	থামানো হয়েছে: কোনো কপি তৈরি হয়নি, …	থামানো হয়েছে: কোনও কপি তৈরি হয়নি, …	কোনও (v3.7)
settings.jobs.common.covers.prose	পুরো সংগ্রহের কভার, পোস্টার আর উৎসগুলোর যা তথ্য নেই।	পুরো সংগ্রহ জুড়ে কভার আর পোস্টার আনে, সঙ্গে উৎসগুলোর যা তথ্য নেই সেটুকুও।	A sentence with a verb, as the other three rows' are. The draft's list ended on নেই and read as saying the details were not there

The 54, by the pass that wrote them, as settled:

Review findings (the jobs pass)

Key	English	Bengali
settings.jobs.past.review.label	Review findings	যা পাওয়া গেছে, দেখে নিন

Not রিভিউ, which is the Settings rail's tab on the same desk screen. যা পাওয়া গেছে is Findings kept's own phrase (reverify.kept.review); দেখে নিন is the sheet's verb for looking a thing over before it is taken, as the staging card's is.

The screens that start a job (the callers)

Sentences, not terms: the lines the re-verify dialog, the backup and the restore and reset prompts say now that their work runs on the server's queue. Where a sibling already said the same fact, the line reuses its words — শুরুই হবে না is the Stop all confirm's, মাঝপথে থেমেছে is the interrupted state's chip. (The confirm's হাতেরটুকু সেরে থামবে went when Stop became instant; its row is in the table below this one.)

Key	English	Bengali
reverify.checking.away	Close this and it carries on — Settings → Jobs has it.	এটা বন্ধ করলেও মিলিয়ে দেখা চলতে থাকবে — সেটিংস → কাজ-এ পাবেন।
reverify.capped	A check holds {kept} at most, so this one has the first {kept} of {total}. Narrow the list for the rest.	একবারে সর্বোচ্চ {kept}টা মিলিয়ে দেখা যায়, তাই এবারে {total}টার প্রথম {kept}টাই আছে। বাকিগুলোর জন্য তালিকা ছোট করে নিন।
reverify.kept.running	Still running · Settings → Jobs	এখনও চলছে · সেটিংস → কাজ-এ
reverify.kept.review	Findings kept · Settings → Jobs	যা পাওয়া গেছে, রাখা আছে · সেটিংস → কাজ-এ
reverify.stop.confirm.title	Stop the check?	মিলিয়ে দেখা থামাবেন?
reverify.stop.confirm.body.waiting	It is stopped before it starts, and kept in Settings → Jobs with its log.	শুরুই হবে না, আর তার লগ নিয়ে সেটিংস → কাজ-এ থেকে যাবে।
reverify.stop.confirm.verb	Stop it	থামান
settings.backup.toast.stopped	backup stopped	ব্যাকআপ থামানো হল
settings.backup.toast.interrupted	backup interrupted	ব্যাকআপ মাঝপথে থেমে গেল
settings.restore.queue.running	{title} is running. The restore is refused until it stops or finishes — stop it in Settings → Jobs first.	{title} চলছে। সেটা থামা বা শেষ না হওয়া পর্যন্ত ফিরিয়ে আনা যাবে না — আগে সেটিংস → কাজ-এ গিয়ে থামান।
settings.restore.queue.waiting.one	One job is waiting; a restore ends it, and it is kept as interrupted.	অপেক্ষার তালিকায় একটা কাজ আছে — ফিরিয়ে আনলে সেটা আর চলবে না, “মাঝপথে থেমেছে” হয়ে থেকে যাবে।
settings.restore.queue.waiting.other	{n} jobs are waiting; a restore ends them, and each is kept as interrupted.	অপেক্ষার তালিকায় {n}টা কাজ আছে — ফিরিয়ে আনলে সেগুলো আর চলবে না, প্রতিটা “মাঝপথে থেমেছে” হয়ে থেকে যাবে।
account.reset.queue.running	{title} is running. The reset is refused until it stops or finishes — stop it in Settings → Jobs first.	{title} চলছে। সেটা থামা বা শেষ না হওয়া পর্যন্ত সব ডেটা মোছা যাবে না — আগে সেটিংস → কাজ-এ গিয়ে থামান।
account.reset.queue.waiting.one	One job is waiting; a reset deletes it with everything else.	অপেক্ষার তালিকায় একটা কাজ আছে — বাকি সবকিছুর সঙ্গে সেটাও মুছে যাবে।
account.reset.queue.waiting.other	{n} jobs are waiting; a reset deletes them with everything else.	অপেক্ষার তালিকায় {n}টা কাজ আছে — বাকি সবকিছুর সঙ্গে সেগুলোও মুছে যাবে।

Stop is at once (3.1.0)

The owner made Stop a kill switch — "No dillydallying after it has been pressed", and "it still shall not break anything" — so a job stops the moment Stop is pressed and the item in hand is left exactly as it was, where before it finished that item first. Every sentence that promised "after the item in hand" says so now. সঙ্গে সঙ্গে is "at once" as it is said aloud; যেমন ছিল তেমনই থাকবে ("stays as it was") is "left untouched" without a form-Bengali word for untouched; হাতেরটুকু keeps the jobs pass's word for the item in hand. A single Stop's toast went with it: the row says থামছে… at the press, and a toast at the server's answer could not know whether the job would end stopped or, its last item already written, succeeded.

Key	English	Bengali
settings.jobs.current.stop-all.confirm.running	The running job stops at once, and the item it has in hand is left untouched.	যেটা চলছে, সেটা সঙ্গে সঙ্গে থামবে, আর হাতেরটুকু যেমন ছিল তেমনই থাকবে।
settings.jobs.current.stopping	Stopping…	থামছে…
reverify.stop.confirm.body	It stops at once and leaves the item in hand untouched, and it is kept in Settings → Jobs with its log.	সঙ্গে সঙ্গে থামবে, হাতেরটুকু যেমন ছিল তেমনই থাকবে, আর তার লগ নিয়ে সেটিংস → কাজ-এ থেকে যাবে।
reverify.stop.stopping	Stopping…	থামছে…

Added when the halves were merged

A job's name the server records and Settings › Jobs had no words for until the backend and the screen met. A job's name is a noun phrase, as every other kind's is (কভার আনা, not কভার আনুন). This one is the step's own button (আগে একটা ব্যাকআপ ডাউনলোড করুন) as a noun phrase, so Current jobs says what the reader pressed; আগাম কপি, which names the "safety", was the other.

Key	English	Bengali
settings.jobs.kind.backup-safety	Safety backup	ব্যাকআপ ডাউনলোড

When an import and its approval became jobs

An import and the approval of what it staged are jobs on the server's queue from 3.1.0, so the Import and Pending import screens say where a file stands and Settings → Jobs names the approval and counts what each did. Each reuses a sibling's words where one already said the same fact: the staged count is the import row's own (উদ্ধৃতি জমা হয়েছে, since 28 September; it said বাকি, which is the waiting count's word and reads as "left", where the sheet's word for staged is জমা), the added count the approval flash's (যোগ হয়েছে), the approval's name the staging screen's verb as a noun phrase (মেনে নেওয়া), and the line beside its Stop the re-verify dialog's (চলতে থাকবে — সেটিংস → কাজ-এ পাবেন), naming the approval as that one names the check.

Key	English	Bengali
settings.jobs.kind.import-approve	Approve imported quotes	ইমপোর্টের উদ্ধৃতি মেনে নেওয়া
settings.jobs.count.staged	{n} quote staged / {n} quotes staged	{n}টা উদ্ধৃতি জমা হয়েছে
settings.jobs.count.added	{n} added	{n}টা যোগ হয়েছে
import.row.unsent	not sent yet	এখনও পাঠানো হয়নি
import.row.halted	{state} — Settings → Jobs can run it again	{state} — সেটিংস → কাজ-এ আবার চালানো যায়
import.row.lost	{state} — the server no longer has this file; drop it again	{state} — ফাইলটা সার্ভারে আর নেই; আবার দিন
import.queued.note	A file already sent carries on in Settings → Jobs if you leave this screen; one not sent yet does not.	যে ফাইল পাঠানো হয়ে গেছে, এই স্ক্রিন ছেড়ে গেলেও সেটা সেটিংস → কাজ-এ চলতে থাকবে; যেটা এখনও পাঠানো হয়নি, সেটা নয়।
staging.approving.progress	Approving — {done} of {total}	মেনে নেওয়া চলছে — {total}-এর মধ্যে {done}
staging.approving.away	Leave this screen and it carries on — Settings → Jobs has it.	এই স্ক্রিন ছেড়ে গেলেও মেনে নেওয়া চলতে থাকবে — সেটিংস → কাজ-এ পাবেন।

The common jobs (Settings → Jobs → Common jobs)

The four jobs a reader runs again and again, each on a row of its own with Run, Run again and Stop in place (and, for the covers pass, Missing only). A row's name is a noun phrase, as every job's is, because the two library-wide rows also name their job in Current jobs and Past jobs. A press's name puts the row's name after a colon, as the Stop buttons do (থামান: {title}), so the hole stays bare (§5.4). The card is নিয়মিত কাজ, the jobs run as a matter of course; বারবারের কাজ was the other, and সাধারণ would read as "ordinary". Each row names its own Run, so নিয়মিত promises no timer.

Key	English	Bengali
settings.jobs.common.title	Common jobs	নিয়মিত কাজ
settings.jobs.common.fill-all.label	Fill gaps in every work	সব উৎসের শূন্যস্থান পূরণ
settings.jobs.common.fill-all.prose	Looks up what every book and film is missing, and fills only the empty fields.	প্রতিটা বই আর সিনেমার যা নেই, খুঁজে দেখে শুধু ফাঁকা ঘরগুলো ভরায়।
settings.jobs.common.people-missing.label	Fetch missing people	মানুষের না-থাকা তথ্য আনা
settings.jobs.common.people-missing.prose	A portrait and reference links for everyone still missing either.	যাঁদের মুখের ছবি বা তথ্যসূত্রের লিংক নেই, তাঁদের সবার জন্য আনে।
settings.jobs.common.covers.label	Fetch covers and details	কভার আর তথ্য আনা
settings.jobs.common.covers.prose	Covers, posters and the details your works are missing, across the library.	পুরো সংগ্রহ জুড়ে কভার আর পোস্টার আনে, সঙ্গে উৎসগুলোর যা তথ্য নেই সেটুকুও।
settings.jobs.common.backup.label	Back up now	এখনই ব্যাকআপ নেওয়া
settings.jobs.common.backup.prose	Seals the library into the one archive the server keeps.	পুরো সংগ্রহ এনক্রিপ্ট করে সার্ভারের একমাত্র আর্কাইভে রাখে।
settings.jobs.common.run.label	Run	চালান
settings.jobs.common.again.label	Run again	আবার চালান
settings.jobs.common.missing-only.label	Missing only	শুধু যা নেই
settings.jobs.common.missing-only.tip	Only the covers and posters that are missing; one already stored is kept	শুধু যে কভার আর পোস্টার নেই; একটা থাকলে সেটাই থাকবে
settings.jobs.common.run.aria	Run {title}	চালান: {title}
settings.jobs.common.again.aria	Run again: {title}	আবার চালান: {title}
settings.jobs.common.missing-only.aria	{title}: missing only	শুধু যা নেই: {title}
settings.jobs.common.stop.aria	Stop {title}	থামান: {title}
settings.jobs.common.last.label	Last run	শেষবার
settings.jobs.common.last.aria	Last run of {title}: {state}, {when}	শেষবার: {title} — {state}, {when}
settings.jobs.common.never	Not run in the last 30 days	গত 30 দিনে চালানো হয়নি
settings.jobs.common.empty	Nothing can be run from here on this server.	এই সার্ভারে এখান থেকে কিছুই চালানো যায় না।

When the safety copy became a job (3.1.0 backups)

The copy a restore or a factory reset takes first waits its turn on the server's queue from 3.1.0, so its step says where the copy stands and offers a Stop. Each line reuses a sibling's words: the step's own এনক্রিপ্ট করা and কপি তৈরি (settings.safety.why.prose, settings.safety.busy), Current jobs' Stop frame (থামান: {title}), and the state chip's থামানো হয়েছে. While the job waits, the step shows Current jobs' own waiting line (অপেক্ষার তালিকায় — এরপরেই), and its Stop button and থামছে… are Current jobs' keys, so nothing new was drafted for them.

Key	English	Bengali
settings.safety.wait.prose	The copy is sealed on the server as a job, and downloads here when it is ready. Keep this open until then.	কপিটা সার্ভারে একটা কাজ হিসেবে এনক্রিপ্ট করা হয়, তৈরি হলে এখানেই ডাউনলোড হবে। ততক্ষণ এটা খোলা রাখুন।
settings.safety.stop.aria	Stop the copy	থামান: কপি তৈরি
settings.safety.stopped	Stopped: no copy was made, and nothing of it is left on the server. Take it again when you are ready.	থামানো হয়েছে: কোনও কপি তৈরি হয়নি, সার্ভারে তার কিছুই থেকে যায়নি। যখন চান আবার নিন।

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v3 decisions

The third pass (2.2.x) rewrote every line of bn.txt — 3,385 keys — from a per-key dossier: the English, the context comment above it, the source line that renders it and its budget. Its brief was that the app should read as if it had been written in Bengali first, in the written Bengali of today. Everything above still holds — চলিত, আপনি with the pronoun dropped, Kolkata orthography, সংলাপ / উক্তি / উদ্ধৃতি, টিপ্পনী reserved — with the owner's three late rulings: a book highlight is উদ্ধৃতি (দাগ retired), the bin is ডাস্টবিন, and the text of a quote is a বাক্য where the English says "line" (লাইন stays for a line of a form, a credit line, a line break). What follows is what the pass added or changed, so nobody re-decides it.

v3.1 The loanword rule, sharpened

§4 said a loan passes when a Bengali would say it in conversation. The earlier passes still reached for a coined native word where the loan is what people actually write today. v3 rules the other way, and these are now binding:

Say	Not	Where
ডিভাইস	যন্ত্র	the phone, the paired device, "this device"
ট্যাপ করুন / ট্যাপ	ছুঁলে, টোকা দিন, চাপুন (for a touchscreen)	every touch instruction. চেপে ধরুন stays for long-press; চাপুন stays for a keyboard key
এনক্রিপ্ট করা	তালাবন্ধ, সাংকেতিক	backups, the recovery key
ডট	ফুটকি	the info dot, the memory dot, the calendar’s day, an ellipsis
ফন্ট	হরফ (as the card or the file)	the Type card, uploads, the face list. হরফ = a script or letterform in prose
স্টাইল	ধাঁচ	the font-modifier card, a tag’s drawing style
ফরম্যাট	ধাঁচ	the share sheet’s Markdown / WhatsApp / plain / Reddit / image formats
সাধারণ লেখা	সাদা টেক্সট, সাদা লেখা	the plain-text format
পটভূমি	ব্যাকড্রপ	the portrait behind a shared image
রিলোড করুন / রিস্টার্ট	আবার লোড করুন	the browser, the server
লিংক	লিঙ্ক	spelling — the one today’s print uses
স্ক্রিন	পর্দা	a screen of the app (§3.7 already said so; the older values had not caught up)
সিলেক্ট করা	বেছে নেওয়া	selecting text in an ebook or a browser. বাছুন stays for selecting cards
ইনডেক্স	সূচি	the search index
পেয়ার / আনপেয়ার	জুড়ুন / খুলে নিন	the Android app and this account
Google Books, Open Library, Amazon, Wikipedia, Wikidata	গুগল বুকস, ওপেন লাইব্রেরি, অ্যামাজন, উইকিপিডিয়া, উইকিডেটা	the source badges and every sentence that names one — Latin, like TMDB and IMDb, so a hint and the badge it points at agree (§8.3 still permits transliteration; v3 simply does not use it)
কনট্রাস্ট, টেক্সচার, কন্ট্রোল, রুটিন, কোয়েস্ট, স্পেস, হাইফেন	বৈসাদৃশ্য, বুনোট, নিয়ন্ত্রণ, সময়সূচি, অভিযান, ফাঁক, যোজক	as themselves

Spelling that goes with it: দুটো, তিনটে, কটা — no apostrophe (দু’ / ক’ is a generation older); কোনও, এখনও, হয়নি, -গুলো, হিসেব, রং / রঙের, সবচেয়ে as §1 already had them.

v3.2 One word per thing

Six writers had left two or three Bengali words for one English one. These are now single:

English	Bengali	Retired
key (API key, recovery key)	চাবি	কি
seal	স্টিকার	সিল
Done (the button)	হয়ে গেছে	শেষ, ঠিক আছে
Hide	লুকান	লুকিয়ে রাখুন
Default (colour slot 1)	সাধারণ	ডিফল্ট
Adaptive	অ্যাডাপ্টিভ	মানানসই
Stray marks	বাড়তি চিহ্ন	এলোমেলো চিহ্ন
Coverage	ঘাটতি	—
field (a form box)	ঘর	ফিল্ড
Activity / the calendar	ক্যালেন্ডার	রোজনামচা
toast (in prose)	বার্তা	—
queue	অপেক্ষার তালিকা	—
schedule (the review schedule)	রুটিন	সময়সূচি
progress	কতদূর	—

v3.3 New terms

English	Bengali	Reason
Bio	জীবনী	The person page’s paragraph
Identity (the person page’s links block)	পরিচয়
portrait	মুখের ছবি	Unchanged, and now used everywhere the English says portrait
reference pages	তথ্যসূত্রের পাতা	Says what they are for
preview	যেমন দেখাবে	A phrase, because প্রিভিউ names a feature and this names what the reader sees
Plain (the share format)	সাধারণ লেখা
Backdrop	পটভূমি
Show me (the flip card’s reveal)	দেখি	First person, like the grades (§3.5)
Shuffle (a random quote)	হঠাৎ একটা	Says what happens rather than naming the mechanism
Recent (the sort)	নতুন আগে	newest first, which is what the sort does
ungrouped	ভাগ নেই
Quest (a game’s locator)	কোয়েস্ট	The gamer’s own word; অভিযান is an expedition
in rotation (a quote the quiz draws)	অনুশীলনীতে ঘুরছে	Was কুইজে ঘুরছে; stats.memory.rotation.label already said অনুশীলনীতে
unattributed	সংগৃহীত	The word Bengali anthologies print under a line with no author
optional (a placeholder)	— ঐচ্ছিক	In prose: না দিলেও চলে
decade	{year}-র দশক	1990-র দশক; the English "1990s" has no Bengali shape
holidays	proper-noun days transliterated (বাস্তিল, ওয়েটাঙ্গি, আনজ্যাক); common-noun names by meaning (শুভ স্বাধীনতা দিবস)	A greeting is read aloud in the reader’s head

v3.4 Specimens and demo copy

• The tour’s demo book is গীতাঞ্জলি, song 1 — আমার মাথা নত করে দাও হে তোমার চরণধুলার তলে। (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, meta গান 1). A Bengali reader’s first sight of a highlight should be a line they know. The demo film stays Casablanca, in English: a film line is a quotation too, and translating it would show the reader something the app never does.
• Font-role samples: the display, ui and hand roles show Latin, because those faces are Latin-only and Bengali in them falls through to the Bengali face (§8.5, fonts.js); the mono sample mixes both, because a locator line does.
• Swatch names are the colours a Bengali names things by, not translations of the hex: রোদ, কমলা, গোলাপি, পেঁয়াজি, লাল, ফিকে বেগুনি, বেগুনি, অপরাজিতা, আকাশি, ময়ূরকণ্ঠী, পুদিনা, পান্না, কচি পাতা, শ্যাওলা, মেটে, পাথর. Accents: পোড়ামাটি, গেরুয়া, জলপাই, স্লেট.

v3.5 The file itself

• bn.txt says in its header that it is not a translation of en.txt, declares no _fallback (both languages ship in the box; neither is the other’s floor), and keeps en.txt’s key order, banners and context comments so the two read side by side.
• Comments starting # bn: record a decision the English side has no reason to make — why a specimen stays Latin, why one Bengali word serves two English ones. They are the only comments in the file that are not en.txt’s. The # ?? / # !! markers of §7 are still the convention for doubt and overflow; v3 hands in none.
• The checks this sheet fixes were run again over the result (they were written in docs/plans/multilingual.md, deleted when that plan finished): 0 সাধু markers, 0 তুমি outside the Tagore line, 0 Bengali digits, 0 placeholder mismatches, every .help.* and .info.body inside its budget.

v3.6 The owner's terminology pass

Seven rulings, taken after the rewrite merged and read on screen. Each replaces a choice this sheet had argued for, so the argument is struck rather than annotated: a term the owner has ruled on is settled, and a later reader should not find two defences of the same word.

Thing	Was	Is	Why
Library	লাইব্রেরি	গ্রন্থাগার
Stats	হিসেব	পরিসংখ্যান	হিসেব survives where it means a record, not the screen
Quiz	কুইজ	প্রশ্নোত্তর
Daily	রোজকার	দৈনিক	Reverses this sheet's own "newsprint" objection
Practice (the section)	প্র্যাকটিস	অনুশীলন	The verb on the button stays ঝালিয়ে নিন
Optional	না দিলেও চলে	ঐচ্ছিক	Six characters against twelve, and it is nearly always in a placeholder or an aria label — a space-sensitive slot
Checks (the screen)	পরীক্ষা	যাচাইকরণ	The screen v3 built from Stray marks and pending imports

The quote kinds were re-stated and are unchanged: উক্তি the Quotes tab, উদ্ধৃতি an extracted line from a book, letter, essay or speech, প্রবাদ a proverb, সংলাপ a line from a film, show or game.

The register words are the owner's call, not this sheet's. The 341 keys v3 added after the rewrite drifted formal, and the fix was not a rule — it was a list put to the owner ten at a time, each item carrying its key, its English and its current Bengali. What came back did not all go one way: এটি→এটা, সেটি→সেটা, একটি→একটা, সংরক্ষণ→সেভ, অনুলিপি→নকল করুন, ওয়েব পাতা→ওয়েবপেজ — but গুলি and এবং were left standing. দৈনিক is the reason the list exists: this sheet had reasoned its way to the wrong word and nothing in the file could have caught it. Do not sweep a register word without asking.

Two sweeps that a plain find-and-replace gets wrong, recorded so the next one does not:

• সেটি → সেটা must be anchored সেটি(?!ং). Thirty-three keys hold সেটিংস, and an unanchored sweep renames Settings to সেটাংস on every screen.
• হিসেব → পরিসংখ্যান is six sites, not thirty. Twenty-six keys carry হিসেবে meaning as (Markdown হিসেবে এক্সপোর্ট), and another thirteen carry হিসেব meaning a count or a record. Only the screen's own name changed.

common.action.duplicate.sub took a {kind} slot rather than a noun: English says "a copy of the quote" for a highlight, a film line and a proverb alike, and Bengali names each one. The slot is filled in actions.jsx from unit.*, which already carried the three.

v3.7 The second batch, and one rule the batches produced

Ten register words went to the owner with their keys and their English. Six were taken (কোনো→কোনও, প্রতিটি→প্রতিটা, noun+টি→noun+টা, {n}টি→{n}টা, যেকোনও→যে কোনও, সংরক্ষিত→সেভ), two were refused (ব্যক্তি and চলচ্চিত্র stand), and two came back as different words than either side proposed. গুলি was reversed — wave 1 had left it standing, batch 3 moved it to গুলো; the sheet records the reversal rather than the first answer, because the file is what the last ruling says.

The Checks screen is যাচাইকরণ, not তথ্য বিন্যাস — also a reversal, taken once the screen was read rather than described.

অপেক্ষা is not for objects. The owner's rule, and it is a real one: Bengali অপেক্ষা presumes someone alive doing the waiting, so imports waiting, quotes waiting, it waits in the bin and waiting for you to tick all anthropomorphised. Forty-one sites now say বাকি (a thing still to be done) or পড়ে থাকা (a thing left lying), and Pending import is যাচাই বাকি ইমপোর্ট — which the Checks screen's own name now answers to.

"Credit" was never one word here. Fifteen strings already said নাম — যাঁর নাম আছে, নামের ক্রমে, এই নাম যেখানে যেখানে আছে — and six later ones said কৃতিত্ব, which is credit in the sense of honour, not of a name on a work. All six moved to the নাম phrasing. শিল্পীরা was offered for it and does not fit these six: they are credited as the {role} and credited on {n} works, about one person, where শিল্পীরা is a plural noun for a cast. If a heading for the set of contributors is ever added, that is its word.

টি is not banned. খুঁটিনাটি, ছুটির, সৃষ্টি, পোড়ামাটি and the verb টিকে থাকা all contain the syllable and none is a classifier. The sweep was written word by word for exactly that reason, and the seventeen forms it touched are listed in the commit.

v3.7a The three-way split, and why it took four rulings

The owner asked the right question — if অনুশীলন is the noun and ঝালিয়ে নিন the verb, what is left for রিভিশন to do? — and the answer turned out to be a whole vocabulary rather than one word. The app has three things where English has two names and one of them is overloaded:

The thing	English	Bengali
The exercise set the app deals you	Quiz / Daily quiz	অনুশীলনী
The spaced-repetition system both draw on	Review	অনুশীলন
The schedule inside it	schedule	দিনপঞ্জি
The unlimited, skippable twin	Practice	ঝালাই
Doing it to one book, from its menu	practise	ঝালিয়ে নিন
The card type that asks a question	Multiple choice	প্রশ্নোত্তর
The card type that blanks a phrase	Fill in the blank	শূন্যস্থান পূরণ

Review could not fold into Practice, and one string proves it: home.practice.info.body says Practice leaves your review schedule alone. Collapse the two and that sentence contradicts itself. অনুশীলন and অনুশীলনী are one letter apart and mean the right two things — the discipline, and the exercise set — which is why the owner's split works where a translator's would not have.

Three sites needed more than a substitution, and they are the ones to watch if this is ever swept again:

• common.status.unseen.label "Not yet reviewed" → এখনও অনুশীলনে ওঠেনি. অনুশীলন হয়নি is not Bengali; a card has not yet come up.
• home.daily.empty.summary "add or review more quotes" → the verb, ঝালিয়ে নিন.
• stats.activity.quiz.noun "reviewed" → অনুশীলন, a bare noun beside its siblings জমা and ঝালাই. দিনপঞ্জি cannot be counted: ক্যালেন্ডার · 42 দিনপঞ্জি is not a sentence.

common.action.fill.label stays শূন্যস্থান পূরণ, the same words as the cloze card, and that is a ruling rather than an oversight. A rater raised it twice: the two controls are a metadata fetch and a quiz card, they meet on different screens, and one name for both means the selection bar offers what reads as a quiz. ঘাটতি ভরান was tried — ঘাটতি is already metadata.coverage.title's word for exactly what Fill gaps fills — and the owner put it back. Both controls fill in a blank, and Bengali has one phrase for that. Do not "fix" it again; if the collision ever has to break, the English labels are what differ ("Fill gaps" against "Fill in the blank") and that is where the split belongs.

v3.7b The names that are not translations

Eight Appearance textures, and the owner rejected the dictionary answer for five of them: ইস্কুল not বিদ্যালয় (a texture named after a place wants the spoken word), খাদান not পাথরখাদান, তাঁতঘর not শিল্পশালা, বাঁধাইয়ের দোকান not বাঁধাইখানা, চলচ্চিত্রের রিল not ফিল্ম সংযোজন. পাণ্ডুলিপি, অফিস and অলিন্দ stood.

Four more section names went the same way: রূপচর্চা for Appearance, নকশা for Material, যন্ত্রপাতি for Devices — the loanword rule does not reach that one — and কী বদলেছে for the Changelog, which is what a changelog is for.

The full register is recorded in docs/wiki/Design-decisions.md under "The Bengali names, as the owner ruled them", because a naming decision is the one design choice a later session cannot re-derive from the code.