How can I display translated sizes in my filter using the Translate and Adapt app?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A merchant using Shopify’s Translate and Adapt app successfully translated European children’s clothing sizes to U.S. equivalents on product pages, but the filter sidebar continued displaying only European sizes, hindering U.S. customer navigation.

Workaround Solution:

  • Created variant-level metafields labeled “U.S. Sizes”
  • Added a separate filter based on this metafield
  • Result: Two parallel filters (European and U.S. sizes) now available

Current Status:
The issue remains unresolved as a native feature. Multiple merchants report the same limitation when adapting content between markets (e.g., EU vs UK English). A Shopify staff member confirmed the metafield workaround as the best available solution, though users note this represents a basic functionality gap in Shopify’s native translation and filtering tools.

Summarized with AI on October 26. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I am using the Shopify Translate and Adapt app to change European kids clothing sizes to U.S. sizes for my U.S. market in English (i.e., 74 european is 1Y U.S.). All of my products have been updated with U.S. sizes and show great on product pages. Unfortunately, the filter bar to the left still shows European sizes, which is not helpful in helping my U.S. customers filter for their needs. Any idea how to show the translated sizes in filter?

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Reporting on the solution I found to work, after days of trial and error and research. Hopefully this helps someone with a similar problem. I created metafields at the variant level. I called that U.S. Sizes, and I added a filter based on Variant Metafield “U.S. Sizes”. I now have two filters - a European Sizes and a U.S. Sizes. Not ideal, but not terrible either, and now U.S. customers have a way to filter for sizes they understand.

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hi @LauraG1 that’s a great solution, and I’d say the best solution in the circumstance

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Having the same issue here.
Everything else translates perfectly fine when using other languages, such as French or German. Although we have come up against this issue when adapting the english language for our EU market vs UK market using Translate and adapt.
I’ve seen this issue spoken about for some time across the platform yet no fix is in place for native shopify apps such as Translate and Adapt, Search and Discovery. Pretty basic stuff.
I’ve had to use the suggestion by Laura above.