[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm working on a historical project and I need to describe a tragic event in Italian, could you help me translate the sentence 'They were tortured' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'They were tortured' into Italian is 'Loro sono state torturate.' I hope this helps you with your project. Please note that the verb 'tortured' is in the feminine plural form 'torturate' because 'loro' is a gender-neutral pronoun, but in this context, it's more common to use the feminine form when referring to a group of people."}]