diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2a31fc69e..df14e6eaf 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Running fish requires:
    ``ls``, ``mkdir``, ``mkfifo``, ``rm``, ``sort``, ``tee``, ``tr``,
    ``uname`` and ``sed`` at least, but the full coreutils plus find, sed
    and awk is preferred)
--  gettext (library and ``gettext`` command), if compiled with
+-  The gettext library, if compiled with
    translation support
 
 The following optional features also have specific requirements: