[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I came across the sentence 'It seemed strange' - could you help me translate that into Italian so I can better understand the nuance of the phrase?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'It seemed strange' in Italian is 'Sembrava strana.'. This sentence is in the past tense, indicating that something appeared strange at a specific point in the past. The word'strana' is an adjective that means'strange' or 'unusual', and'sembrava' is the imperfect tense of the verb'sembrare', which means 'to seem' or 'to appear'."}]