[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I stumbled upon the sentence 'Three men were lost.' Could you help me translate it into Italian so I can better understand the language and its grammar?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Three men were lost' in Italian is 'Tre uomini erano persi.' This sentence is in the passive voice and the verb 'erano persi' is in the imperfect tense, which indicates an ongoing or repeated action in the past."}]