Towns & Countries: Budapesten or Győrben?

With place names you only have to choose the right set of endings. Almost all foreign cities and countries take the inside set: Bécsben, Londonba, Németországból. Magyarország is the exception: Magyarországon.

Most Hungarian towns take the surface set: Budapesten, Szegedre, Pécsről, Miskolcon, Kaposváron. Some towns take the inside set: Győrben, Egerbe, Debrecenből, Sopronban, Veszprémben, Tihanyba, Tokajból.

There is no reliable rule (Győrben but Kaposváron), so learn each town together with its ending. Vowel harmony still applies: Szegeden but Siófokon, Győrbe but Sopronba. Pécs also keeps an old form: Pécsett (in Pécs) is as correct as Pécsen.