[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to improve my Italian skills and I came across a sentence I'd like to express in conversation - 'I was surprised.' Can you help me find the correct translation for that sentence?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The correct translation for the sentence 'I was surprised' in Italian is indeed 'Io ero sorpreso'. However, please note that in Italian, the subject pronoun is often omitted, so a more common way to say it would be 'Ero sorpreso'."}]