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Durigo is a mobile app for finding durian sellers and logging sightings of them. People use it to discover durian stalls, trucks, shops and farms near them on a map, see what's in stock and at what price, and rate what they've tasted. The words below appear all over the app, and each one needs to read naturally and mean the same thing everywhere it shows up. For each word you'll see what it means and where people run into it, then my suggested translation. Please correct anything that sounds off or unnatural.

We've already settled most of the wording ourselves. This page only asks about the few spots where we're still unsure, with the neighbouring words shown faded where they help.

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When someone is standing at a durian seller, they can log what they see right now: how much is in stock, the price. The app calls this a "Sighting", like spotting a durian out in the wild and jotting it in a notebook. We want the friendly "I spotted it / I found it here" feeling. Please avoid the word for a scary/ghostly apparition or a courtroom eyewitness.
Word type: a noun. This one matters. The app never uses it as a verb. It appears inside sentences ("Delete sighting?", "Your sighting will be archived", "No sightings yet", "Add your first sighting") as well as on its own as a short label, so please give a word that can sit inside a sentence rather than a phrase that only works on a button. It needs a plural form ("Sightings"), and it also appears lowercase in the middle of a sentence ("Check out this sighting"), so it shouldn't depend on being capitalised.
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This word covers a status update someone posts about a store (stock, price, etc.) — a plain note, not an eyewitness report. Does 'Belum ada laporan lagi' read naturally for 'no updates yet'? For a count, is it 'laporan 12' or '12 laporan'? And does 'laporan' avoid sounding like a police report (laporan polis) in this context?
The real owner of a durian store can "claim" it in the app so they can manage it. To prove the store is really theirs, three different customers scan a QR code to confirm them. That's "verifying". Once confirmed, the owner gets a "Verified owner" badge.
Claim = saying "this store is mine" (like registering ownership). NOT an insurance claim, NOT claiming a prize.
Verify / Verified = the community confirming someone really is the owner (a trust thing, not an ID or document check).
Verified owner = the badge they earn.
Word types: please give every form your language needs. "Claim" has to work both as a noun and as a verb: as a noun in "My claims", "No claims yet", "Cancel claim?", "Claim moderation"; as a verb in "Claim this store" and "Store claimed". "Verify" needs three forms: the verb ("Verify", "when three customers verify it"), the adjective ("Verified", "Verified owner"), and a noun for the act itself ("Verification QR", "Awaiting verification", "a store verification code"). If those are different words in your language, please write each one.
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Claim (assert ownership)
Bare 'Tuntut' takes an object in most strings (e.g. 'Tuntut kedai ini'). As a noun elsewhere ('Tuntutan Saya' / My claims), does that read too legalistic — would 'Tuntutan Kedai Saya' be clearer?
Verified owner (badge)
Given the seller mix (stalls and trucks as much as fixed shops), does 'Pemilik disahkan' (verified owner) fit better than 'Peniaga disahkan' (verified trader)?
After tasting, people give an overall score (roughly 1 to 5 stars) for the whole experience, or for a single durian variety. "Rating" is that overall score, and "Rate" is the button/verb for giving it. Ideally keep this different from "Review" (the full written write-up). They're related but shouldn't be the exact same word.
Word types: a noun for the score ("Rating") and a verb for the button ("Rate"). Neither appears inside a longer sentence, so both can stay short.
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⚠️ Your call matters most hereRate (verb)
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No durian-specific rating convention exists in Malay, so this is a register call, not a correctness one. 'Nilai' is the compact live Shopee MY button; 'Beri Penilaian' suits a full-width CTA; 'Beri Rating' is the casual, English-loan option. Which sounds like an app you'd use rather than a form you'd fill in?
How much durian a seller has left right now, on a simple scale from none to lots. It shows up as a small badge, so shorter is better. "Moderate" just means a middling amount, nothing to do with prices or fairness.
Word type: labels only. These four are the steps of a selector and a small badge rather than sentence text, so they only have to work on their own.
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⚠️ Your call matters most hereLow
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Chose the colloquial 'Tinggal sikit' over the neutral 'Sedikit' for warmth — does it still read fine on a compact map badge, or is it too informal there?
⚠️ Your call matters most hereModerate
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Chose 'Agak banyak' (a quantity phrase) over 'Sederhana' (the standard scale midpoint, but not one naturally said about durian stock) — does 'Agak banyak' sound natural here?
How ripe the durian is, shown on a 7-step slider from unripe to spoiled. These are steps on one scale, so they should read as a smooth progression, not seven unrelated words. Please use words that are specifically about ripeness where you can: if a word also hints at texture or something else, lean toward the one that's mostly about how ripe it is (but if no clean word exists, that's okay).
Word type: labels only. These are the steps of a slider and small on-screen labels, not sentence text, so they only have to work on their own, and shorter is better.
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⚠️ Your call matters most hereSlightly ripe
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For the early-ripening step: 'Mula masak' ('starting to ripen') reads as a stage; 'Separa masak' is the more formal horticultural term some sellers might prefer. Which reads better? Avoid 'separuh masak' — that phrase is used for a soft-boiled egg, not fruit.
How sweet the durian tastes, on a 5-step slider from not sweet to extremely sweet. A smooth progression: please make sure the top two steps ("very" vs "extremely") feel clearly different from each other.
Word type: labels only. Like the ripeness scale, these live on a slider and as small on-screen labels rather than in a sentence, so shorter is better.
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⚠️ Your call matters most hereExtremely sweet
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For the top step of the sweetness scale: does 'Teramat manis' clearly read stronger than 'Sangat manis' below it? Or does it sound too formal for food talk — would 'Amat sangat manis' read more natural, even though it's three words?
How bitter the durian tastes, on a 5-step slider from not bitter to extremely bitter. This is just the plain level of bitterness at one moment. Please don't use expressions about bitterness "turning into sweetness" or an aftertaste journey; that idea belongs elsewhere in the app.
Word type: labels only. These are slider steps and small labels rather than sentence text, so keep them short.
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Mildly bitter
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Both attested for durian. 'Sedikit pahit' (a little bitter, kept) reads as quantity; 'Agak pahit' (rather bitter) reads slightly more as a judgement. Either works — does one sound more natural here?
⚠️ Your call matters most hereExtremely bitter
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For the top step of the bitterness scale (same question as sweetness's top step): does 'Teramat pahit' clearly read stronger than 'Sangat pahit'? Or does it sound too formal — would the three-word 'Amat sangat pahit' read more natural?
Tiny labels showing how long ago someone last reported something at a durian seller, like "5m" (5 minutes ago), "3h" (3 hours ago), "2d" (2 days ago). This is elapsed time: "X ago", not a countdown, not distance, and not a calendar date. Space is tight, so short is welcome, but natural wins over short: if your language doesn't abbreviate time units in this situation, please give the normal words rather than a clipped form invented to save space. We'll make room. (This is a real correction: Chinese, for instance, uses the full words for "X ago" and only abbreviates in countdowns.)
Word type: labels only. Each one sits directly after a number and nothing else.
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m (minutes)
Does a bare '5 min' next to a store pin risk reading as travel time, the way it would in a ride-hailing app? If it needs to be unambiguous, the relative-past form would read '5 min lalu' / '3 jam lalu' / '2 hari lalu' instead — does that read better, or is the bare form fine?
How fatty and heavy the durian flesh feels on the palate (think butter or cream), on a 5-step scale from light to rich. NOT sweetness, and not how strong the flavor is. Those are separate questions. Neither end is good or bad.
Only the two ends (Light, Rich) are settled. The three words in between are genuinely open. Please suggest whatever reads most natural to you as a smooth step between them, rather than translating my placeholder English literally. If your language has a natural way to describe this that doesn't map to exactly five steps, say so in the notes.
Word type: labels only. As with the other sliders, these are on-screen labels rather than sentence text, so shorter is better.
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Very light
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For a light, watery durian you still enjoyed, would you tap 'Sangat ringan', or would 'Tidak lemak' (no fat) read more honestly — even though it risks sounding like a defect verdict on a genuinely disappointing fruit?
Light
'Ringan' is attested for food generally, not for durian specifically. Under the heading 'Kelemakan', does 'Ringan' read as 'not fatty' (intended), or as 'not much flavour'?
Rich
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As a standalone chip (outside the slider), does bare 'Lemak' read as the adjective (rich/fatty), or momentarily as the noun 'fat'? 'Berlemak' is safer but reads more like a nutrition label.
The stringy, thread-like strands in the durian flesh that stay in your mouth after chewing, not dietary fiber in the nutrition sense. A 5-step scale from none to extremely fibrous.
Most languages we've checked describe this as one word for 'fiber/strands' plus a degree word (a little / a lot), rather than five completely different words. Please build it that way if you can, instead of inventing a new word for each step. 'No fiber' is a real, positive answer people actually give (the taster checked and found none), not a placeholder for 'didn't check': if your language naturally says this as a negation ('without fiber'), that's exactly right, no need to force a positive-sounding word.
Word type: labels only. These are slider steps and small labels, not sentence text, so shorter is better.
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Extremely fibrous
'Sangat berserat' / 'Teramat berserat' is grammatically sound and matches the ladder used elsewhere, but the pair is unattested together in durian sources — does step 5 read as clearly more than step 4, or do the two blur together?

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