[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to describe a scene in Italian and I'm stuck on the sentence 'She was swimming.' Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'She was swimming' in Italian is 'Stava nuotando.'"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Grazie mille! Is there a difference in how you would use'stava nuotando' versus 'nuotava'?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "While both'stava nuotando' and 'nuotava' can be translated to'she was swimming','stava nuotando' is used to describe an ongoing action in the past, whereas 'nuotava' is the imperfect tense, used to describe a repeated or habitual action in the past."}]