diff --git a/src/model/translate.py b/src/model/translate.py
index 4c58aec..e861ff1 100644
--- a/src/model/translate.py
+++ b/src/model/translate.py
@@ -17,14 +17,18 @@ model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_name)
 
 # Function to translate text
 def translate(text):
+    if pd.isna(text) or text == '':
+        return ''  # Return an empty string for NaN or empty string inputs
     inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=512)
     translated = model.generate(**inputs)
     return tokenizer.decode(translated[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
 
+
 # Translate 'text' and 'title' columns
 tqdm.pandas()
-df_sample['title_de'] = df_sample['title'].progress_apply(translate)
-df_sample['text_de'] = df_sample['text'].progress_apply(translate)
+df_sample['title_de'] = df_sample['title'].fillna('').progress_apply(translate)
+df_sample['text_de'] = df_sample['text'].fillna('').progress_apply(translate)
+
 
 # Calculate the new serial numbers
 max_serial = df['Serial'].max()