[[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn a few phrases in Italian to communicate with my friends while traveling, and I'm stuck on the sentence 'Ask my friends.' Can you help me translate it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Ask my friends' in Italian is 'Chiedete alle mie amiche' (if your friends are female) or 'Chiedete ai miei amici' (if your friends are male or if the group is mixed). However, if you want to use the exact translation you provided, the correct one would be 'Chiedete alle mie amiche' or 'Chiedete ai miei amici', but not 'Chiedete le mie amiche'."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes sense, thank you for the clarification. But what if I want to say 'Ask my friends' in a more general sense, without specifying the gender of my friends?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In that case, you can use the phrase 'Chiedete ai miei amici.' The word 'amici' is a masculine noun that is commonly used to refer to a group of friends in a general sense, regardless of their gender."}]]