I would bet that you have the module [Pathauto][1] enabled. It allows you to create path aliases for mach of your site stuff like nodes and taxonomies. Go to Configuration > Search and metadata > URL aliases > Patterns. That's where you enter the alias patterns for content, taxonomies, etc. Set the default alias to `[term:vocabulary]/[term:name]` It should be mentioned for any case that the basic Drupal path is [term:vocabulary]/[term:name]/% [1]: https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto