diff --git a/man/jail.conf.5 b/man/jail.conf.5
index 5f29161d..8ff407f0 100644
--- a/man/jail.conf.5
+++ b/man/jail.conf.5
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ effective ban duration (in seconds or time abbreviation format).
 time interval (in seconds or time abbreviation format) before the current time where failures will count towards a ban.
 .TP
 .B maxretry
-number of failures that have to occur in the last \fBfindtime\fR seconds to ban then IP.
+number of failures that have to occur in the last \fBfindtime\fR seconds to ban the IP.
 .TP
 .B backend
 backend to be used to detect changes in the logpath.