diff --git a/man2/setfsgid.2 b/man2/setfsgid.2
index f22183423..ad81c92f0 100644
--- a/man2/setfsgid.2
+++ b/man2/setfsgid.2
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ In glibc 2.15 and earlier,
 when the wrapper for this system call determines that the argument can't be
 passed to the kernel without integer truncation (because the kernel
 is old and does not support 32-bit group IDs),
-they will return \-1 and set \fIerrno\fP to
+it will return \-1 and set \fIerrno\fP to
 .B EINVAL
 without attempting
 the system call.
diff --git a/man2/setfsuid.2 b/man2/setfsuid.2
index b5842a69b..8918af37e 100644
--- a/man2/setfsuid.2
+++ b/man2/setfsuid.2
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ In glibc 2.15 and earlier,
 when the wrapper for this system call determines that the argument can't be
 passed to the kernel without integer truncation (because the kernel
 is old and does not support 32-bit user IDs),
-they will return \-1 and set \fIerrno\fP to
+it will return \-1 and set \fIerrno\fP to
 .B EINVAL
 without attempting
 the system call.