Classroom:NTNU, LING1113 (2009) - The meaning of ''Ovenfor''
'Ovenfor' is another preposition signalling superiority. This preposition denotes that the located object is located over the reference object, without any contact between them. It is higher than it. A sentence could be "Huset står ovenfor skolen", which means "the house stands above the school". "Huset" is higher situated in space than "skolen", it is on a higher place. 'Ovenfor' could also have a conceptual meaning when we say "et avsnitt ovenfor på denne siden", which means "a paragraph earlier on this page". It does not mean that the located object "en side" is superior to "denne siden", the reference object.