vidéke

Vidéke is a form of the Hungarian noun vidék, commonly meaning "countryside," "region," or "rural area." In Hungarian grammar, vidéke is the third-person singular possessive form, generally translating as "his/her/its region" or "the region of" (for example, ország vidéke — "the country's countryside"). The element also appears in compound geographical names and historical designations, such as in compounds indicating a particular part of a country (e.g., Délvidék for the southern region).

As a lexical item, vidék and its derived forms are used both in everyday language to distinguish rural from urban environments and in policy and academic contexts (for example, vidéki élet meaning rural life, or vidékfejlesztés meaning rural development). The adjective vidéki denotes belonging to the countryside or small-town character.

In cultural and historical usage, compounds containing vidék or its inflected forms often carry regional and political connotations, reflecting shifting borders and identities in Central Europe. In modern Hungarian, vidéke retains primarily descriptive and possessive functions within sentences and contributes to place names and administrative vocabulary when referring to non-urban areas.