diff --git a/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt b/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt
index 7fbbd81c415..797b49c624d 100644
--- a/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -288,7 +288,13 @@ function(get_translatable_sources var)
           get_target_property(target_source_dir ${target} SOURCE_DIR)
           cmake_path(APPEND target_source_dir ${source} OUTPUT_VARIABLE source)
         endif()
-        list(APPEND result ${source})
+        get_property(is_generated
+          SOURCE  ${source} TARGET_DIRECTORY ${target}
+          PROPERTY GENERATED
+        )
+        if(NOT is_generated)
+          list(APPEND result ${source})
+        endif()
       endforeach()
     endif()
   endforeach()
@@ -319,7 +325,6 @@ else()
     COMMAND Qt5::lconvert -drop-translations -o ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/locale/bitcoin_en.xlf -i ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/locale/bitcoin_en.ts
     COMMAND ${SED_EXECUTABLE} -i.old -e "s|source-language=\"en\" target-language=\"en\"|source-language=\"en\"|" -e "/<target xml:space=\"preserve\"><\\/target>/d" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/locale/bitcoin_en.xlf
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E rm ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/locale/bitcoin_en.xlf.old
-    DEPENDS ${translatable_sources}
     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src
     VERBATIM
   )