Usage Note
Generazionale is an invariable-ending adjective (same form for m/f): il divario generazionale (the generational gap, m), la differenza generazionale (f). It is a relatively recent addition to Italian, increasingly common in sociological and journalistic discourse about age cohorts. The noun base is generazione (f).
Examples
"Il divario generazionale è sempre esistito."
Natural Translation
The generational gap has always existed.
Literal Translation
The gap generational has always existed.
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