diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/package.nix
index 9c54afb0f871..d28f0ce70a89 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/package.nix
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [
     ./respect-xml-catalog-files-var.patch
+    ./specify-localedir.patch
   ];
 
   postPatch =
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/specify-localedir.patch b/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/specify-localedir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..57e79da4d0b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/fi/firewalld/specify-localedir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- a/src/firewall/config/__init__.py.in
++++ b/src/firewall/config/__init__.py.in
+@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
+ DOMAIN = "firewalld"
+ import gettext
+ 
++locale.bindtextdomain(DOMAIN, "/usr/share/locale")
++gettext.bindtextdomain(DOMAIN, "/usr/share/locale")
++
+ gettext.install(domain=DOMAIN)
+ 
+ from . import dbus  # noqa: F401