diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php
index 1277786f6e..e07fe62d84 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
  * it can be revisionable, translatable, or both.
  *
  * A revisionable entity can keep track of the changes that affect its data. In
- * fact all previous revisions of the entity are stored and available as
+ * fact all previous revisions of the entity can be stored and made available as
  * historical information. The "default" revision is the canonical version of
  * the entity, the one that is loaded when no specific revision is requested.
  * Only changes to the default revision may be performed without triggering the
@@ -90,10 +90,12 @@
  * for each enabled language. Some fields may be defined as untranslatable,
  * which means that their values are shared among all translations. The
  * "default" translation is the canonical version of the entity, the one whose
- * content will be accessible in the entity field data, if no language is
- * specified. Other translation objects can be instantiated from the default
- * one. Every translation has an "active language" that is used to determine
- * which field translation values should be handled.
+ * content will be accessible in the entity field data. Other translation
+ * objects can be instantiated from the default one. Every translation has an
+ * "active language" that is used to determine which field translation values
+ * should be handled. Typically the default translation's active language is the
+ * language of the content that was originally entered and served as source for
+ * the other translations.
  * @see \Drupal\Core\Entity\TranslatableInterface
  * @see \Drupal\Core\Entity\TranslatableStorageInterface
  *