diff --git a/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtension.php b/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtension.php
index d40ca1845..95c8d8fa1 100644
--- a/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtension.php
+++ b/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtension.php
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ private function registerSerializerConfiguration(array $config, ContainerBuilder
             $container->removeDefinition('serializer.mapping.cache_class_metadata_factory');
         }
 
-        if (!class_exists(Translator::class)) {
+        if (!$this->readConfigEnabled('translator', $container, $config)) {
             $container->removeDefinition('serializer.normalizer.translatable');
         }
 
diff --git a/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/php/serializer_without_translator.php b/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/php/serializer_without_translator.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..acf013080
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/php/serializer_without_translator.php
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?php
+
+$container->loadFromExtension('framework', [
+    'annotations' => false,
+    'http_method_override' => false,
+    'handle_all_throwables' => true,
+    'php_errors' => ['log' => true],
+    'serializer' => [
+        'enabled' => true,
+    ],
+    'translator' => [
+        'enabled' => false,
+    ],
+]);
diff --git a/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/serializer_without_translator.xml b/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/serializer_without_translator.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..584937b0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/serializer_without_translator.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+
+<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd
+                        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd">
+
+    <framework:config secret="s3cr3t" http-method-override="false" handle-all-throwables="true">
+        <framework:annotations enabled="false" />
+        <framework:php-errors log="true" />
+        <framework:serializer enabled="true" />
+        <framework:translator enabled="false" />
+    </framework:config>
+</container>
diff --git a/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/yml/serializer_without_translator.yml b/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/yml/serializer_without_translator.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..33ee3f4b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/yml/serializer_without_translator.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+framework:
+    annotations: false
+    http_method_override: false
+    handle_all_throwables: true
+    php_errors:
+        log: true
+    serializer:
+        enabled: true
+    translator:
+        enabled: false
diff --git a/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTestCase.php b/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTestCase.php
index 9036fc6d5..460c899e3 100644
--- a/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTestCase.php
+++ b/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTestCase.php
@@ -1434,6 +1434,12 @@ public function testSerializerEnabled()
         $this->assertEquals($container->getDefinition('serializer.normalizer.object')->getArgument(6)['max_depth_handler'], new Reference('my.max.depth.handler'));
     }
 
+    public function testSerializerWithoutTranslator()
+    {
+        $container = $this->createContainerFromFile('serializer_without_translator');
+        $this->assertFalse($container->hasDefinition('serializer.normalizer.translatable'));
+    }
+
     public function testRegisterSerializerExtractor()
     {
         $container = $this->createContainerFromFile('full');
diff --git a/Tests/Functional/app/Serializer/config.yml b/Tests/Functional/app/Serializer/config.yml
index 016e41291..e35d5fa28 100644
--- a/Tests/Functional/app/Serializer/config.yml
+++ b/Tests/Functional/app/Serializer/config.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ imports:
 
 framework:
     http_method_override: false
+    translator: true
     serializer:
         enabled: true
         default_context: