Consider this pattern (alias to term): [node:field-news-category-ref:i18n-vocabulary]/ [node:field-news-category-ref:name-field]/[node:nid] . I'm using here title and i18n modules. Translations in vocabulary are turned off, but vocabulary name can be and has been translated. The problem is that this pattern for some reason seems to be ignored and I think it messes up things related to path creation, because when I was testing it, paths "per language" to those terms, stopped working at all for some reason. I have also installed and enabled for taxonomy entity_translation module but I'm not sure if it can interfere here.