[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm writing a story and one of the characters is Italian - can you help me translate the phrase 'He's a bad liar' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In Italian, the correct translation of 'He's a bad liar' is 'Lui \u00e8 un pessimo bugiardo.' or more commonly used '\u00c8 un pessimo bugiardo.' Note that if you want to refer to a female character you would say 'Lei \u00e8 un pessima bugiarda' "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why do you say 'Lui \u00e8 un pessimo bugiardo.' when the example had 'Lei \u00e8 un pessimo bugiardo.'?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In Italian 'Lei' is the formal way to say 'you', but also can be used as subject to refer to a female character, while 'Lui' is the formal way to say 'he'. In your case, the original sentence had 'He', so I corrected to 'Lui',  'Lei' should be used when referring to a female."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see what you mean. So 'Lui' is the formal way to say he."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Lui is the formal subject pronoun for 'he' or 'him' in Italian, while the informal way to say 'he' in Italian is 'lui',  you can omit the capital letter at the beginning, but usually the formal way is used in written contexts."}]