[{"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' into Italian is 'Erano molto povere.' This sentence is in the feminine plural form, if the subject were masculine, the translation would be 'Erano molto poveri.'"}]