# Build translations from translations

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/build-translations-from-translations/181751>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [January 17, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/build-translations-from-translations/181751 "2010-01-17T20:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![james](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@james](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/build-translations-from-translations/181751/1 "2010-01-17T20:17:40Z")

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I’d like to do something like the following in my en.yml file:

foo: “foo”  
bar: “bar”  
foobar: “{:foo} {:bar}”

Some languages will demand that foobar come out as “{:bar} {:foo}” or  
some other combination. Is there support for such behavior? How is it  
done?

Thanks,  
James