ételekbe

ételekbe is a Hungarian illative form of the plural noun étel (food, dish). In Hungarian, the illative case marks movement toward the inside of or into something. When applied to étel in its plural form, it becomes ételekbe, indicating movement into or toward the foods themselves. The illative suffix -be is used after front-vowel stems; with étel/ételek, the form is ételekbe.

This form occurs in contexts such as culinary instructions and descriptive prose to mark actions directed at the foods rather than at a container or broader ingredient set. For example, a recipe might state: A fűszert az ételekbe szórják (The spices are sprinkled into the foods). Another example: Az öntetet az ételekbe öntik (They pour the sauce into the foods). Such usage helps specify the target of a verb within a cooking process.

Ételekbe is thus a grammatical inflection rather than a standalone concept. It illustrates how Hungarian uses case endings to express spatial relations and movement toward a defined plural object—in this case, the foods themselves. The form is most common in written materials dealing with recipes, instruction, or descriptive narration of cooking, rather than in everyday casual speech.