[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I'm stuck on the sentence \"Tom broke it.\" Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Certo! The translation of the sentence \"Tom broke it\" in Italian is \"Tom l'ha rotto\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Grazie! I was struggling to find the correct translation. Can you explain why it's 'l'ha' and not just 'ha'?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In Italian, when you use a direct object pronoun like 'it' (which is 'lo' in Italian, but 'l' before vowels or when the verb starts with a vowel), you contract it with the verb 'ha' to get 'l'ha'. This is a common construction in Italian, and it's used to indicate that the action of the verb is being performed on a specific object."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes sense. So, if I wanted to say 'Tom broke them', I would use 'li' instead of 'lo' and get 'Tom li ha rotti'?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Esattamente! You would use 'li' instead of 'lo' because 'them' is a plural object, and the verb 'rotto' would also become 'rotti' to agree with the plural object. So, the correct translation of 'Tom broke them' is indeed 'Tom li ha rotti'. Great job!"}]