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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.

  1. 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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    ⚠️ Your call matters most here
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    This word covers a status update someone posts about a store — the same register as 'cập nhật bảng giá' (updating a price list). Does 'Chưa có cập nhật nào' read naturally for 'no updates yet'? And does a bare 'Cập nhật' button read as the verb rather than a label — would the CTA need a verb attached, e.g. 'Gửi cập nhật'?

  2. A durian "variety" means a named type of durian, like Monthong, Chanee, or Musang King. NOT "variety" in the sense of "a mix" or "an assortment". Please use the word for a named kind or breed of fruit.

    Word type: a noun, used in both singular and plural: "Variety", "Varieties", "What varieties did you try?". It appears both as a short tab label and inside sentences.

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    'Giống' can momentarily read as the adjective 'similar / the same' when standing alone as a tab label — does it land clearly, or would 'Giống sầu riêng' be safer if the tab has room?

  3. 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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    ⚠️ Your call matters most hereClaim (assert ownership)
    'Đây là quán của tôi' ('this is my quán') is the warm, conversational CTA option — but Store's umbrella noun elsewhere in the app is 'Điểm bán', not 'quán'. Does the CTA still read naturally using 'quán' for the entity here, or should it use 'Điểm bán' instead to stay consistent?
    ⚠️ Your call matters most hereVerified owner (badge)
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    'Chủ quán đã xác minh' uses 'quán' for the entity — but Store's umbrella word elsewhere in the app is 'Điểm bán', not 'quán'. Does the badge read better as-is, or as 'Người bán đã xác minh' (verified seller), to stay consistent with 'Điểm bán'?

  4. 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 hereRipe
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    'Chín' is the neutral midpoint pick; 'Chín tới' ('right at the mark') is what durian buyers actually call the ideal eating point — is this step meant to be the sweet spot people aim for, or just the neutral middle of the ladder?

  5. 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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    'Cực ngọt' keeps the modifier+adjective shape used across the ladder. 'Ngọt lịm' is durian writing's own fixed intensive for overwhelming sweetness — two syllables, no ambiguity about outranking 'Rất ngọt', at the cost of breaking the ladder's shape and reading more like marketing praise than a neutral step. Which fits better?

  6. 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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    Bitter
    Vietnamese durian writing almost always talks about the bitter finish ('hậu đắng nhẹ', 'nhẫn') rather than plain bitterness — expect an instinct to suggest one of those here. Reject it for this slider: they describe the aftertaste, not this axis, and 'nhẫn' is held in reserve for a future aftertaste attribute.

  7. Whether a durian seller is open or closed. There are four situations, and they need to stay clearly different from one another:

    • Open: open right now
    • Temporarily closed: the owner closed it for now but plans to reopen
    • Permanently closed: the owner shut it down for good
    • Closed: closed right now according to its posted opening hours

    Please word the three "closed" cases so a user can tell them apart at a glance.

    Word type: labels only. All four are shown as a badge or as options in a picker rather than inside a sentence, so they only have to work on their own.

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    Closed (per schedule / right now)
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    'Đã đóng cửa' is the auto-derived badge for closed-right-now; in the owner's own status picker it risks reading as 'I've shut down' rather than a schedule state. If that reads wrong, 'Ngoài giờ mở cửa' ('outside opening hours') is the unambiguous alternative for the picker specifically — does the bare badge read fine as-is?

  8. 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 phút' next to a store pin risk reading as a duration, and '3 giờ' as a literal clock time, rather than elapsed time? If it needs to be unambiguous, the relative-past form would read '5 phút trước' / '3 giờ trước' / '2 ngày trước' instead — does that read better, or is the bare form fine?

  9. 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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    Light
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    'Ít béo' reads as the sensory 'less rich' under the Độ béo heading, but doubles as the nutrition-label phrase for low-fat milk ('sữa ít béo') — clear next to 'Rất béo', but if this label ever appears standalone (a filter chip, a search tag), does it still read as richness rather than a nutrition claim? 'Béo nhẹ' is the collocation alternative if so.

  10. 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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    Fibrous
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    'Xơ vừa' follows the productive 'ngọt vừa / cay vừa' medium-intensity pattern used elsewhere in Vietnamese, and it's the one step here not attested verbatim in durian writing. The fallback 'Có xơ' ('has fibre') is safe but ranks weaker against 'Ít xơ' above it — does 'Xơ vừa' read naturally as the midpoint?

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