diff --git a/src/data/aux/translations.xml b/src/data/aux/translations.xml
index 2db4ca4..08b9074 100644
--- a/src/data/aux/translations.xml
+++ b/src/data/aux/translations.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   <entry name="editor-abbr" en="ed." de="Hrsg." fr="éd." it="cur." />
   <entry name="editors-abbr" en="eds." de="Hrsg." fr="éd." it="cur." />
   <entry name="fig" en="Fig." de="Abb." fr="Fig." it="Fig." />
+  <entry name="tab" en="Tab." de="Tab." fr="Tab." it="tab." />
   <entry name="urlseen" en="visited on" de="besucht am" fr="visité le" it="visitato il" />
   <entry name="continued" en="cont." de="Forts." fr="cont." it="cont."/>
 </translations>
diff --git a/src/imxml2epub.py b/src/imxml2epub.py
index 36bc90e..7bb7ec9 100755
--- a/src/imxml2epub.py
+++ b/src/imxml2epub.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
-# Time-stamp: <2021-06-23 09:02:36 (kthoden)>
+# Time-stamp: <2021-06-23 12:44:37 (kthoden)>
 
 """ Convert a customized DocBook XML file into a set of files that
 constitute the contents of an EPUB file.
@@ -1584,7 +1584,15 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
         if strTableCaption != "nonumber":
             intTableNumber = dictTables[xml_table_id]
             xmlTableCaption = etree.Element("p")
-            xmlTableCaption.text = str(intTableNumber) + " " + strTableCaption
+
+            dictLangTables = translation_xml.find("//entry[@name='tab']").attrib
+            xmlChapter = xmlFigure.xpath("./ancestor::div1")[0]
+            tables_text = dictLangTables[libeoaconvert.two_letter_language(xmlChapter.get("language"))]
+            if len(strTableCaption) == 0:
+                xmlTableCaption.text = f"{tables_text} {str(intTableNumber)}"
+            else:
+                xmlTableCaption.text = f"{tables_text} {str(intTableNumber)}: {strTableCaption}"
+                xmlTable.addnext(xmlTableCaption)
             if xmlTable.find(".//EOAtablecaption").getchildren() is not None:
                 for xmlChild in xmlTable.find(".//EOAtablecaption").iterchildren():
                     xmlTableCaption.append(xmlChild)