diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7
index 4fb274f76..2f502923a 100644
--- a/man7/ipv6.7
+++ b/man7/ipv6.7
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ handling functions in the C library.
 .PP
 IPv4 and IPv6 share the local port space.
 When you get an IPv4 connection
-or packet to a IPv6 socket, its source address will be mapped
+or packet to an IPv6 socket, its source address will be mapped
 to v6 and it will be mapped to v6.
 .SS Address format
 .in +4n
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ IPv6 supports several address types: unicast to address a single
 host, multicast to address a group of hosts,
 anycast to address the nearest member of a group of hosts
 (not implemented in Linux), IPv4-on-IPv6 to
-address a IPv4 host, and other reserved address types.
+address an IPv4 host, and other reserved address types.
 .PP
 The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 8 4-digit hexadecimal
 numbers, separated with a \(aq:\(aq.