diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7
index c2a37f7cc..896c7d735 100644
--- a/man7/user_namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ in the initial user namespace.
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 .SS Interaction of user namespaces and other types of namespaces
 Starting in Linux 3.8, unprivileged processes can create user namespaces,
-and other the other types of namespaces can be created with just the
+and the other types of namespaces can be created with just the
 .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
 capability in the caller's user namespace.
 .PP