diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.c b/disk-utils/fdisk.c
index 2126b4cb1..73525fa51 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fdisk.c
+++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ int print_partition_info(struct fdisk_context *cxt)
 			goto clean_data;
 		if (!data || !*data)
 			continue;
-		fdisk_info(cxt, _("%15s: %s"), fdisk_field_get_name(fd), data);
+		fdisk_info(cxt, "%15s: %s", fdisk_field_get_name(fd), data);
 		free(data);
 	}
 
diff --git a/misc-utils/cal.c b/misc-utils/cal.c
index 266f77bdc..2a86c1992 100644
--- a/misc-utils/cal.c
+++ b/misc-utils/cal.c
@@ -739,19 +739,19 @@ static void cal_output_header(struct cal_month *month, const struct cal_control
 
 	if (ctl->header_hint || ctl->header_year) {
 		for (i = month; i; i = i->next) {
-			sprintf(out, _("%s"), ctl->full_month[i->month - 1]);
+			sprintf(out, "%s", ctl->full_month[i->month - 1]);
 			center(out, ctl->week_width - 1, i->next == NULL ? 0 : ctl->gutter_width);
 		}
 		if (!ctl->header_year) {
 			my_putstring("\n");
 			for (i = month; i; i = i->next) {
-				sprintf(out, _("%04d"), i->year);
+				sprintf(out, "%04d", i->year);
 				center(out, ctl->week_width - 1, i->next == NULL ? 0 : ctl->gutter_width);
 			}
 		}
 	} else {
 		for (i = month; i; i = i->next) {
-			sprintf(out, _("%s %04d"), ctl->full_month[i->month - 1], i->year);
+			sprintf(out, "%s %04d", ctl->full_month[i->month - 1], i->year);
 			center(out, ctl->week_width - 1, i->next == NULL ? 0 : ctl->gutter_width);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/misc-utils/namei.c b/misc-utils/namei.c
index 35cdf1964..60171f600 100644
--- a/misc-utils/namei.c
+++ b/misc-utils/namei.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ print_namei(struct namei *nm, char *path)
 				blanks += 1;
 			blanks += nm->level * 2;
 			printf("%*s ", blanks, "");
-			printf(_("%s - %s\n"), nm->name, strerror(nm->noent));
+			printf("%s - %s\n", nm->name, strerror(nm->noent));
 			return -1;
 		}
 
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.c b/sys-utils/mount.c
index 72e8a455e..3a7bbf6dd 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.c
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static int mk_exit_code(struct libmnt_context *cxt, int rc)
 			spec = mnt_context_get_source(cxt);
 		if (!spec)
 			spec = "???";
-		warnx(_("%s: %s."), spec, buf);
+		warnx("%s: %s.", spec, buf);
 	}
 
 	if (rc == MNT_EX_SUCCESS && mnt_context_get_status(cxt) == 1) {
diff --git a/sys-utils/umount.c b/sys-utils/umount.c
index 61d9a33ef..d522e05a9 100644
--- a/sys-utils/umount.c
+++ b/sys-utils/umount.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int mk_exit_code(struct libmnt_context *cxt, int rc)
 			spec = mnt_context_get_source(cxt);
 		if (!spec)
 			spec = "???";
-		warnx(_("%s: %s."), spec, buf);
+		warnx("%s: %s.", spec, buf);
 	}
 	return rc;
 }