[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I came across the sentence 'His car was empty.' Could you please help me translate it into Italian so I can better understand how to express that idea in the language?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'His car was empty' in Italian is 'La sua auto era vuota.' This sentence is in the imperfect tense, which is used to describe ongoing or repeated actions in the past. The phrase 'La sua auto' means 'his car', 'era' is the imperfect tense of the verb 'to be', and 'vuota' means 'empty'."}]