[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm studying Italian for a trip to visit my friend Tom, and I want to tell my host family about my efforts to locate him - how would I translate 'I tried to find Tom' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'I tried to find Tom' in Italian is 'Ci ho provato a trovare Tom.' This sentence conveys your effort to find Tom, and you can use it to inform your host family about your attempts to locate him."}]