diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7
index ddbdc12a6..f64e877ca 100644
--- a/man7/unicode.7
+++ b/man7/unicode.7
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ can be used to transform the internal
 characters and strings into the system character encoding and back
 and
 .BR wcwidth (3)
-tells, how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the
+tells how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the
 output of a character.
 .SS Private Use Areas (PUA)
 In the Basic Multilingual Plane,