[[{"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 'Loro erano molto poveri.' This sentence is in the past tense, indicating that the subject was poor at a specific point in the past."}]]