diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index d0337213e..695818753 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ These flags are as follows:
 .B SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS
 Setting this flag allows a thread that has one or more 0 UIDs to retain
 capabilities in its permitted and effective sets
-when it switches all of its UIDs to a nonzero value.
+when it switches all of its UIDs to nonzero values.
 If this flag is not set,
 then such a UID switch causes the thread to lose all capabilities
 in those sets.