[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I've come across the sentence 'I was afraid of Tom.' Can you please help me translate it into Italian so I can better understand how to express this feeling in the language?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'I was afraid of Tom' in Italian is 'Avevo paura di Tom.' This sentence uses the imperfect tense 'avevo' which is the correct way to express a past feeling or state in Italian."}]