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@@ -39,6 +39,22 @@ are needed.
 **Note:** This requires that you have the tools Qt 5 Linguist and the PyQt5 tool `pylupdate5`
 installed on your system.
 
+### Missing QtBase Translations
+
+The default Qt dialogs also have translations, for instance for standard buttons for "Yes", "No",
+"Ok", "Cancel", etc. Generally, these translations files are installed with the Qt libraries on
+your system, and novelWriter will collect those translations from there. However, these
+translations are missing for many languages.
+
+As a starting point, there is no need to translate any entries in the `.ts` files that are under
+elements starting with the letter "Q", like "QPlatformTheme", "QWizard", etc. If these turn up in
+English in novelWriter after activating a translation, it means they are probably missing in the Qt
+library, and you may also need to translate these.
+
+These additional translation entries are generated from a file named `i18n/qtbase.py`, which is not
+a file that novelWriter uses. It is there only to generate these additional entries for the `.ts`
+files.
+
 ## Project Localisation
 
 Projects can have a different language setting than the GUI itself. The files with format