[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn some common phrases in Italian for a story I'm writing and I'm stuck on the sentence 'I almost choked.' Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'I almost choked' in Italian is 'Sono quasi soffocato.' If you're a female character, you would say 'Sono quasi soffocata.' But don't worry, 'Sono quasi soffocato' is the masculine form and it's the one most commonly used."}]