diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ea68728259c..0d4532985b2 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ Emacs buffers, like indentation and the like.  The new ert function
 
 +++
 ** loaddefs.el generation has been reimplemented.
-The various loaddefs.el files in the Emacs tree (which contains
+The various loaddefs.el files in the Emacs tree (which contain
 information about autoloads, built-in packages and package prefixes)
 used to be generated by functions in autoloads.el.  These are now
 generated by loaddefs-gen.el instead.  This leads to functionally