Usage Note
Separazione covers both physical separation and the legal one preceding divorce, separazione legale. Like other -zione nouns it is feminine, pluralising to separazioni.
Examples
"La separazione è stata dolorosa."
Natural Translation
The separation was painful.
Literal Translation
The separation is been painful.

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