[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I'm stuck on the sentence 'Are they alive?'. Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Certo, I'd be happy to help! The Italian translation of 'Are they alive?' is 'Loro sono vive?'. Keep in mind that the verb'sono' is in the third person plural form, and 'vive' is the feminine plural form of the adjective 'vivo' (alive), so it's used because 'loro' is a general term that can refer to people of any gender."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That helps, thank you. But what if I'm referring specifically to males, how does the translation change?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "If you're referring specifically to males, the translation would be 'Loro sono vivi?'. The only difference is the adjective 'vivi', which is the masculine plural form."}]