diff --git a/app/widgets/gimpdrawabletreeview.c b/app/widgets/gimpdrawabletreeview.c
index 06c0740549..f160efd3c8 100644
--- a/app/widgets/gimpdrawabletreeview.c
+++ b/app/widgets/gimpdrawabletreeview.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ gimp_drawable_tree_view_new_dropped (GimpItemTreeView *view,
   GimpItem  *item;
 
   gimp_image_undo_group_start (image, GIMP_UNDO_GROUP_EDIT_PASTE,
-                               _("New Layer"));
+                               C_("singular", "New Layer"));
 
   item = GIMP_ITEM_TREE_VIEW_GET_CLASS (view)->new_item (image);
 
diff --git a/app/widgets/gimplayertreeview.c b/app/widgets/gimplayertreeview.c
index aa8118942b..9e2a8273f7 100644
--- a/app/widgets/gimplayertreeview.c
+++ b/app/widgets/gimplayertreeview.c
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ gimp_layer_tree_view_item_new (GimpImage *image)
   GimpLayer *new_layer;
 
   gimp_image_undo_group_start (image, GIMP_UNDO_GROUP_EDIT_PASTE,
-                               _("New Layer"));
+                               C_("singular", "New Layer"));
 
   new_layer = gimp_layer_new (image,
                               gimp_image_get_width (image),