diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 2ced2aafe2f1c..2fc288de438b3 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ def _check_setitem_copy(self, stacklevel=4, t='setting', force=False):
                 t = ("\n"
                      "A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a "
                      "DataFrame\n\n"
-                     "See the the caveats in the documentation: "
+                     "See the caveats in the documentation: "
                      "http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy")
 
             else:
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ def _check_setitem_copy(self, stacklevel=4, t='setting', force=False):
                      "A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a "
                      "DataFrame.\n"
                      "Try using .loc[row_indexer,col_indexer] = value instead\n\n"
-                     "See the the caveats in the documentation: "
+                     "See the caveats in the documentation: "
                      "http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy")
 
             if value == 'raise':