diff --git a/lib/Form/DataTransformer/MultilingualSelectionTransformer.php b/lib/Form/DataTransformer/MultilingualSelectionTransformer.php
index c2b61cc6f..96ae4db2c 100644
--- a/lib/Form/DataTransformer/MultilingualSelectionTransformer.php
+++ b/lib/Form/DataTransformer/MultilingualSelectionTransformer.php
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public function transform($value)
     public function reverseTransform($value)
     {
         if (!$value) {
-            return null;
+            return [$this->languageCode => $value];
         }
 
         return array_merge($this->data->fieldSettings['multilingualOptions'], [$this->languageCode => $value]);