Heikentymisestä

Heikentymisestä is a Finnish elative form used to express origin, cause, or basis related to the process of weakening or deterioration. It stems from verbs such as heikentää (to weaken) and heikentyä (to become weaker) and from the noun heikentymä/heikentäminen, which denote the act or state of weakening. In Finnish grammar, the elative case (ending -stä or -stä) indicates source or basis, similar to “from” or “because of” in English, and heikentymisestä is used when the phrase refers to something arising from a weakening or deterioration.

Common usage includes phrases like terveyden heikentymisestä (from the deterioration of health) or heikentymisestä johtuvat riskit (risks arising from weakening). The form can appear in scientific, medical, economic, or policy texts, often in combination with adjectives or nouns to specify the object affected by the weakening. It functions as a grammatical connector that links a condition or outcome to its underlying deterioration.

Examples:

- Tämä oireilmiö on seurausta terveydentilan heikentymisestä.

- Heikentymisestä johtuvat kustannukset kasvavat vuodesta toiseen.

- Tutkimus tarkastelee ympäristön tilan heikentymisestä liittyviä riskitekijöitä.

Notes:

- The elative phrase is a grammatical construction rather than a standalone concept, used to indicate origin, cause, or basis of a phenomenon.

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, heikentäminen, heikentyminen.

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