diff --git a/django_admin_react/api/views/actions.py b/django_admin_react/api/views/actions.py
index df1f7d6..34c20aa 100644
--- a/django_admin_react/api/views/actions.py
+++ b/django_admin_react/api/views/actions.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 from typing import Any
 
+from django.contrib.admin.utils import model_format_dict
 from django.db import transaction
 from django.http import HttpRequest
 from django.http import HttpResponse
@@ -138,9 +139,22 @@ def actions_payload(model_admin: Any, request: HttpRequest) -> list[dict[str, An
     confirmation step regardless — this hint is a UX optimisation.
     """
     raw = model_admin.get_actions(request) or {}
+    # Django's built-in `delete_selected` (and any action whose
+    # `short_description` uses the admin's `%(verbose_name)s` /
+    # `%(verbose_name_plural)s` placeholders) ships a *format string*,
+    # not a finished label — Django interpolates it at render time via
+    # `model_format_dict(opts)`. Do the same here so the SPA shows
+    # "Delete selected files", never the raw "%(verbose_name_plural)s".
+    fmt = model_format_dict(model_admin.model._meta)
     out: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
     for name, (_callable, _resolved_name, description) in raw.items():
-        label = str(description) if description else name
+        raw_label = str(description) if description else name
+        try:
+            label = raw_label % fmt
+        except (KeyError, ValueError, TypeError):
+            # Not a %-format string, or references a key we don't
+            # provide — surface the label verbatim rather than crashing.
+            label = raw_label
         requires_conf = "delete" in (label.lower() + " " + name.lower())
         out.append(
             {
diff --git a/tests/test_actions.py b/tests/test_actions.py
index f658e1a..a8d44d0 100644
--- a/tests/test_actions.py
+++ b/tests/test_actions.py
@@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ def test_actions_include_default_delete(superuser_client: Client) -> None:
             assert action["requires_confirmation"] is True
 
 
+@pytest.mark.django_db
+def test_delete_selected_label_is_interpolated(superuser_client: Client) -> None:
+    """``delete_selected``'s ``%(verbose_name_plural)s`` placeholder is
+    interpolated with the model's plural — never shown raw to the SPA."""
+    response = superuser_client.get(LIST_URL)
+    delete = next(a for a in response.json()["actions"] if a["name"] == "delete_selected")
+    # The raw Django short_description is "Delete selected
+    # %(verbose_name_plural)s"; the SPA must receive the finished label.
+    assert "%(" not in delete["label"]
+    assert "verbose_name_plural" not in delete["label"]
+    assert "users" in delete["label"].lower()  # auth.User → "users"
+
+
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