Swedish

Adjective

övre

1. upper

   övre våningen

   upper floor

2. northern

   övre Norrland

   northern Norrland

Usage notes

• In geographic names like Övre Volta ‎(“Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso”), upper means higher, upstream. But there is no such meaning in övre Norrland.
• The word looks like a comparative form of över-övre-överst, but över is a preposition and not an adjective.

See also

• över
• överst