högra

Högra is a nonstandard or dialectal spelling that appears in some Scandinavian texts as a variant of the Swedish word höger, meaning the right-hand side or the political right. In contemporary standard Swedish, the preferred form is höger. The spelling högra is largely confined to older orthography or regional dialects and is uncommon in formal writing today. When encountered, it is usually understood to refer to the same concepts as höger (directional right or the right side, and by extension the political right), but it is not regarded as standard Swedish.

Etymology and usage context: The standard Swedish höger comes from the same semantic field as related Germanic terms for the right side. Variants such as högra reflect historical or dialectal variation in spelling before modern standardization. In philological or dialect surveys, högra may appear as a preserved form in transcriptions or regional writings, illustrating how orthography varied prior to standardization in the 20th century.

In modern Swedish, writers aiming for standard language typically avoid högra in favor of höger. When discussing the political spectrum, Höger is used in compound phrases (for example, Högerpartiet is the historical term for a conservative-right group) and högern or höger sida for “the right side.” For readers consulting dictionaries or language histories, höger is the recommended form, while högra may be noted as a historical or regional variant.

See also: Höger; Right-hand side; Political right.