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Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
It turns consonants that precede it to a soft pronounciation, when otherwise it would be a hard pronounciation. It is purely phonetic.
Okay, then it is merely a phonetic matter.
One more thing - I observe that the suffix/ending ``ность'' turns a word or root to the abstract noun, for example, while непрерывный means continuous(ie, an adj), the word непрерывность signifies a noun, abstract in character, that means continuity. And in the end ``ный'' makes them adjective. Is my observation correct? Is that a rule of grammar? Kindly describe.