Visszautazik

Visszautazik is a Hungarian verb meaning to travel back or to return by transport to a place one has left. It is formed by the prefix vissza-, meaning back, attached to utazik, “to travel.” The term describes a person resuming travel to a previous location after being away, most often home or to another city or country.

In usage, it is intransitive and commonly paired with adverbial destinations such as haza (“home”) or a city name with a directional suffix: a városába, hazafelé. Present tense forms include ő visszautazik and én visszautazom; past tense forms include ő visszautazott and én visszautaztam. Examples: “Ő holnap visszautazik haza.” “A család hétvégén visszautazik a szülővárosába.”

The term is often contrasted with visszatér, which more generally means to return to a place or state, without emphasizing the travel back itself. Visszautazik specifically highlights the act of traveling back to a previous location after being away. It is common in everyday Hungarian, travel writing, and news reporting when describing someone leaving a place after a visit and returning to their home base.