diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
index 7ec14dc887a..bbca5f513c4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
   <para>
    There can be multiple pg_basebackups running at the same time, but it is
    better from a performance point of view to take only one backup, and copy
-   the the result.
+   the result.
   </para>
  </refsect1>