[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to write an Italian short story and I'm stuck on translating the simple phrase 'I waited.' Could you help me with that?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'I waited' in Italian is 'Io ho aspettato.' If you want to make it sound more natural, you could also use 'Ho aspettato' - the 'io' is implied, so it's often omitted in informal writing and speech."}]