diff --git a/modeltrans/fields.py b/modeltrans/fields.py
index 0cddab5..18c468c 100644
--- a/modeltrans/fields.py
+++ b/modeltrans/fields.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.db.models import fields
 from django.db.models.functions import Cast, Coalesce
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 from .conf import get_create_gin_setting, get_default_language, get_fallback_chain
 from .utils import build_localized_fieldname, get_i18n_index_name, get_language