[[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I came across the sentence 'They were very poor.' Can you help me translate it into Italian so I can better understand how to express this idea in the language?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'They were very poor' in Italian is 'Erano molto poveri.' This sentence uses the verb 'essere' (to be) in the imperfetto tense, which is 'erano', and'molto poveri' means very poor. This is a common way to express the idea of someone being poor in the past."}]]