diff --git a/config/labels-custom-metadata.md b/config/labels-custom-metadata.md
index 9826368b69..b5f293b801 100644
--- a/config/labels-custom-metadata.md
+++ b/config/labels-custom-metadata.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ sense for your business or application.
 ## Label keys and values
 
 A label is a key-value pair, stored as a string. You can specify multiple labels
-for an object, but each key-value pair must be unique within an object. If the
+for an object, but each key must be unique within an object. If the
 same key is given multiple values, the most-recently-written value overwrites
 all previous values.