[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I'm stuck on the sentence 'Nobody volunteered.' Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Nobody volunteered' in Italian is 'Non si \u00e8 offerto nessuno.'"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's really helpful, thank you! I was struggling to understand how to express that sentence in Italian. Can you break it down for me?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The sentence 'Non si \u00e8 offerto nessuno' is in the passive voice, where 'non' means 'not','si \u00e8 offerto' is the passive form of 'to offer oneself' and 'nessuno' means 'nobody'. So, the sentence literally means 'Not nobody offered themselves', but in a more natural translation, it means 'Nobody volunteered'."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, that makes sense now. What if I wanted to use the sentence in a different context, like 'Nobody volunteered to help'? Would the translation be different?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In that case, the translation would be 'Non si \u00e8 offerto nessuno per aiutare' or more naturally 'Nessuno si \u00e8 offerto di aiutare'. Both translations convey the meaning of 'Nobody volunteered to help', but the second one is more common and idiomatic in Italian."}]