diff --git a/lib/krb5/verify_krb5_conf.8 b/lib/krb5/verify_krb5_conf.8
index 2ce6f28c4..056b0ac92 100644
--- a/lib/krb5/verify_krb5_conf.8
+++ b/lib/krb5/verify_krb5_conf.8
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 reads the configuration file
 .Pa krb5.conf ,
 or the file given on the command line,
-and parses it, thereby verifying that the syntax is not correctly wrong.
+parses it, checking verifying that the syntax is not correctly wrong.
 .Pp
 If the file is syntactically correct,
 .Nm