diff --git a/extensions/markdown/package.json b/extensions/markdown/package.json
index dfb2d5eec95fe0ca40dfcdcb5a535641e10ea545..60b34043b6d3f90d4e1902582e0ea5d18c1bfa49 100644
--- a/extensions/markdown/package.json
+++ b/extensions/markdown/package.json
@@ -120,12 +120,12 @@
 				"markdown.styles": {
 					"type": ["array"],
 					"default": [],
-					"description": "A list of URLs or local paths to CSS style sheets to use from the markdown preview. Relative paths are interpreted relative to the folder open in the explorer. If there is no open folder, they are interpreted relative to the location of the markdown file. All '\\' need to be written as '\\\\'."
+					"description": "%markdown.styles.dec%"
 				},
 				"markdown.previewFrontMatter": {
 					"type": ["string"],
 					"default": "hide",
-					"description": "Sets how YAML front matter should be rendered in the markdown preview. 'hide' removes the front matter. Otherwise, the front matter is treated as markdown content"
+					"description": "%markdown.previewFrontMatter.dec%"
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/extensions/markdown/package.nls.json b/extensions/markdown/package.nls.json
index 217fdf3a617cf692f9e9ce3f79c93069fdad9dcd..dbdafe5963f4eac0300a11697eb38bfa0a9d4a82 100644
--- a/extensions/markdown/package.nls.json
+++ b/extensions/markdown/package.nls.json
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 {
 	"markdown.preview.title" : "Open Preview",
 	"markdown.previewSide.title" : "Open Preview to the Side",
-	"markdown.showSource.title" : "Show Source"
+	"markdown.showSource.title" : "Show Source",
+	"markdown.styles.dec": "A list of URLs or local paths to CSS style sheets to use from the markdown preview. Relative paths are interpreted relative to the folder open in the explorer. If there is no open folder, they are interpreted relative to the location of the markdown file. All '\\' need to be written as '\\\\'.",
+	"markdown.previewFrontMatter.dec": "Sets how YAML front matter should be rendered in the markdown preview. 'hide' removes the front matter. Otherwise, the front matter is treated as markdown content"
 }
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