Consonant gradation in Finnish involves alternations between a "strong grade" and a "weak grade" of consonants, influenced by both phonological and grammatical factors. Historically, a consonant would shift to its weak grade if it was part of a closed syllable. However, due to language evolution, there are now instances where the weak grade may or may not appear regardless of the syllable being open or closed, such as in "Turkuun" where the strong grade appears in a closed syllable. Grammatically, the weak grade typically shows up in nouns, pronouns, and adjectives before case suffixes, and in verbs before person agreement suffixes.
consonant gradation in finnish involves alternations between a "strong grade" and a "weak grade" of consonants influenced by both phonological and grammatical factors historically a consonant would shift to its weak grade if it was part of a closed syllable however due to language evolution there are now instances where the weak grade may or may not appear regardless of the syllable being open or closed such as in "turkuun" where the strong grade appears in a closed syllable grammatically the weak grade typically shows up in nouns pronouns and adjectives before case suffixes and in verbs before person agreement suffixes