[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I came across the sentence 'It seemed strange' - could you help me translate that into Italian so I can better understand the nuance of the phrase?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'It seemed strange' in Italian is 'Sembrava strano.'. This sentence is in the imperfect tense, which is used to describe ongoing or repeated actions in the past. The phrase'sembrava' is the imperfect form of the verb'sembrare', which means 'to seem' or 'to appear', and'strano' means'strange'. So, 'Sembrava strano' is a good way to express that something appeared unusual or out of the ordinary at a particular point in the past."}]