diff --git a/include/wx/translation.h b/include/wx/translation.h
index 0f38931d2f..aaa55571d4 100644
--- a/include/wx/translation.h
+++ b/include/wx/translation.h
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ public:
 
     // add catalog for the given domain returning true if it could be found by
     // wxTranslationsLoader
-    bool AddAvailableCatalog(const wxString& domain);
+    bool AddAvailableCatalog(const wxString& domain, wxLanguage msgIdLanguage = wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_US);
 
     // add standard wxWidgets catalog ("wxstd")
     bool AddStdCatalog();
@@ -193,6 +193,15 @@ public:
     static const wxString& GetUntranslatedString(const wxString& str);
 
 private:
+    enum class Translations
+    {
+      NotNeeded = -1,
+      NotFound = 0,
+      Found = 1
+    };
+
+    Translations DoAddCatalog(const wxString& domain, wxLanguage msgIdLanguage);
+
     // perform loading of the catalog via m_loader
     bool LoadCatalog(const wxString& domain, const wxString& lang);
 
diff --git a/interface/wx/translation.h b/interface/wx/translation.h
index 401a421bdd..cba3f1fdad 100644
--- a/interface/wx/translation.h
+++ b/interface/wx/translation.h
@@ -158,6 +158,16 @@ public:
         All loaded catalogs will be used for message lookup by GetString() for
         the current locale.
 
+        @param domain
+            The catalog domain to add.
+
+        @param msgIdLanguage
+            Specifies the language of "msgid" strings in source code
+            (i.e. arguments to GetString(), wxGetTranslation() and the _() macro).
+            It is used if AddCatalog() cannot find any catalog for current language:
+            if the language is same as source code language, then strings from source
+            code are used instead.
+
         @return
             @true if catalog was successfully loaded, @false otherwise, usually
             because it wasn't found. Note that unlike AddCatalog() this
@@ -167,9 +177,10 @@ public:
             selected or system-default languages, but is not necessarily an
             error if no translations are needed in the first place.
 
-        @since 3.3.0
+        @since 3.2.5
      */
-    bool AddAvailableCatalog(const wxString& domain);
+    bool AddAvailableCatalog(const wxString& domain,
+                             wxLanguage msgIdLanguage = wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_US);
 
     /**
         Add a catalog for use with the current locale or fall back to the
diff --git a/src/common/translation.cpp b/src/common/translation.cpp
index 6ed764df5b..152d1786ef 100644
--- a/src/common/translation.cpp
+++ b/src/common/translation.cpp
@@ -1315,22 +1315,18 @@ bool wxTranslations::AddStdCatalog()
     return AddCatalog(domain);
 }
 
-bool wxTranslations::AddAvailableCatalog(const wxString& domain)
+bool wxTranslations::AddAvailableCatalog(const wxString& domain, wxLanguage msgIdLanguage)
 {
-    const wxString domain_lang = GetBestAvailableTranslation(domain);
-    if ( domain_lang.empty() )
-    {
-        wxLogTrace(TRACE_I18N,
-                    wxS("no suitable translation for domain '%s' found"),
-                    domain);
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    return LoadCatalog(domain, domain_lang);
+    return DoAddCatalog(domain, msgIdLanguage) == Translations::Found;
 }
 
-bool wxTranslations::AddCatalog(const wxString& domain,
-                                wxLanguage msgIdLanguage)
+bool wxTranslations::AddCatalog(const wxString& domain, wxLanguage msgIdLanguage)
+{
+    return DoAddCatalog(domain, msgIdLanguage) != Translations::NotFound;
+}
+
+wxTranslations::Translations wxTranslations::DoAddCatalog(const wxString& domain,
+                                                          wxLanguage msgIdLanguage)
 {
     const wxString msgIdLang = wxUILocale::GetLanguageCanonicalName(msgIdLanguage);
     const wxString domain_lang = GetBestTranslation(domain, msgIdLang);
@@ -1339,7 +1335,7 @@ bool wxTranslations::AddCatalog(const wxString& domain,
         wxLogTrace(TRACE_I18N,
                     wxS("no suitable translation for domain '%s' found"),
                     domain);
-        return false;
+        return Translations::NotFound;
     }
 
     if ( LoadCatalog(domain, domain_lang) )
@@ -1347,7 +1343,7 @@ bool wxTranslations::AddCatalog(const wxString& domain,
         wxLogTrace(TRACE_I18N,
                    wxS("adding '%s' translation for domain '%s' (msgid language '%s')"),
                    domain_lang, domain, msgIdLang);
-        return true;
+        return Translations::Found;
     }
 
     // LoadCatalog() failed, but GetBestTranslation() returned non-empty language.
@@ -1355,7 +1351,7 @@ bool wxTranslations::AddCatalog(const wxString& domain,
     wxLogTrace(TRACE_I18N,
                 wxS("not using translations for domain '%s' with msgid language '%s'"),
                 domain, msgIdLang);
-    return true;
+    return Translations::NotNeeded;
 }