diff --git a/src/Mod/Draft/draftguitools/gui_selectplane.py b/src/Mod/Draft/draftguitools/gui_selectplane.py
index 425ddb19f7..e6781f7fba 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Draft/draftguitools/gui_selectplane.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Draft/draftguitools/gui_selectplane.py
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ class Draft_SelectPlane:
         vdir += str(_vdir.x)[:4] + ','
         vdir += str(_vdir.y)[:4] + ','
         vdir += str(_vdir.z)[:4] + ')' + ' '
-        vdir *= translate("draft", "Dir", "Dir here means Direction, not Directory. Also shorten the translation because of available space in GUI")
+        vdir += translate("draft", "Dir", "Dir here means Direction, not Directory. Also shorten the translation because of available space in GUI")
         vdir = ': ' + vdir
         if type(arg).__name__ == 'str':
             self.wpButton.setText(arg + suffix)
diff --git a/src/Mod/Draft/draftutils/translate.py b/src/Mod/Draft/draftutils/translate.py
index 04e7176650..3c8ddd6ccc 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Draft/draftutils/translate.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Draft/draftutils/translate.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ except AttributeError:
     _encoding = None
 
 
-def translate(context, text):
+def translate(context, text, comment=None):
     r"""Translate the text using the Qt translate function.
 
     It wraps around `QtGui.QApplication.translate`,
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def translate(context, text):
     >>> QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate(context, text, None)
     >>> QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, None)
     """
-    return Qtranslate(context, text, None)
+    return Qtranslate(context, text, comment)
 
 
 # Original code no longer used. It is listed here for reference