diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index a045a86cd5b49e..96b15cb29fbe14 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -17454,7 +17454,6 @@
 				"@babel/runtime": "^7.16.0",
 				"@wordpress/hooks": "file:packages/hooks",
 				"gettext-parser": "^1.3.1",
-				"lodash": "^4.17.21",
 				"memize": "^1.1.0",
 				"sprintf-js": "^1.1.1",
 				"tannin": "^1.2.0"
diff --git a/packages/i18n/package.json b/packages/i18n/package.json
index cb7bb9d4002700..25d00e177c68ec 100644
--- a/packages/i18n/package.json
+++ b/packages/i18n/package.json
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 		"@babel/runtime": "^7.16.0",
 		"@wordpress/hooks": "file:../hooks",
 		"gettext-parser": "^1.3.1",
-		"lodash": "^4.17.21",
 		"memize": "^1.1.0",
 		"sprintf-js": "^1.1.1",
 		"tannin": "^1.2.0"
diff --git a/packages/i18n/tools/pot-to-php.js b/packages/i18n/tools/pot-to-php.js
index 78d52d0b54cec5..1f371b539ae9c4 100755
--- a/packages/i18n/tools/pot-to-php.js
+++ b/packages/i18n/tools/pot-to-php.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  * External dependencies
  */
 const gettextParser = require( 'gettext-parser' );
-const { isEmpty } = require( 'lodash' );
 const fs = require( 'fs' );
 
 const TAB = '\t';
@@ -47,8 +46,8 @@ function convertTranslationToPHP( translation, textdomain, context = '' ) {
 	let original = translation.msgid;
 	const comments = translation.comments;
 
-	if ( ! isEmpty( comments ) ) {
-		if ( ! isEmpty( comments.reference ) ) {
+	if ( Object.values( comments ).length ) {
+		if ( comments.reference ) {
 			// All references are split by newlines, add a // Reference prefix to make them tidy.
 			php +=
 				TAB +
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ function convertTranslationToPHP( translation, textdomain, context = '' ) {
 				NEWLINE;
 		}
 
-		if ( ! isEmpty( comments.translator ) ) {
+		if ( comments.translator ) {
 			// All extracted comments are split by newlines, add a tab to line them up nicely.
 			const translator = comments.translator
 				.split( NEWLINE )
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ function convertTranslationToPHP( translation, textdomain, context = '' ) {
 			php += TAB + `/* ${ translator } */${ NEWLINE }`;
 		}
 
-		if ( ! isEmpty( comments.extracted ) ) {
+		if ( comments.extracted ) {
 			php +=
 				TAB + `/* translators: ${ comments.extracted } */${ NEWLINE }`;
 		}
@@ -77,8 +76,8 @@ function convertTranslationToPHP( translation, textdomain, context = '' ) {
 	if ( '' !== original ) {
 		original = escapeSingleQuotes( original );
 
-		if ( isEmpty( translation.msgid_plural ) ) {
-			if ( isEmpty( context ) ) {
+		if ( ! translation.msgid_plural ) {
+			if ( ! context ) {
 				php += TAB + `__( '${ original }', '${ textdomain }' )`;
 			} else {
 				php +=
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ function convertTranslationToPHP( translation, textdomain, context = '' ) {
 		} else {
 			const plural = escapeSingleQuotes( translation.msgid_plural );
 
-			if ( isEmpty( context ) ) {
+			if ( ! context ) {
 				php +=
 					TAB +
 					`_n_noop( '${ original }', '${ plural }', '${ textdomain }' )`;