diff --git a/rest_framework/authtoken/models.py b/rest_framework/authtoken/models.py
index 7e96eff93..db1834428 100644
--- a/rest_framework/authtoken/models.py
+++ b/rest_framework/authtoken/models.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import os
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.db import models
 from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 
 
 @python_2_unicode_compatible