[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I'm stuck on the sentence \"I was coughing.\" Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Certo! (Of course!) The translation of 'I was coughing' in Italian is 'Io stavo tossendo.' If you want to practice, you can try to break it down: 'Io' means 'I','stavo' is the imperfect form of 'to be' (in this case, 'I was'), and 'tossendo' is the gerund form of 'cough'."}]