[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to communicate with Tom's Italian teacher and I need to ask if he's absent, can you help me translate the sentence 'Is Tom absent today?' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Is Tom absent today?' into Italian is 'Tom \u00e8 assente oggi?'"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's great, thank you! So if I want to ask Tom's teacher if he's absent, I can simply say 'Tom \u00e8 assente oggi?'"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Exactly, 'Tom \u00e8 assente oggi?' is a polite and correct way to ask if Tom is absent today. The teacher should be able to understand and respond accordingly."}]