[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm writing a story and one of my characters notices that some people have left, I'd like to translate the phrase 'They were gone' into Italian, could you help me with that?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Italian translation for 'They were gone' is 'Erano andati'. This is the correct way to express the idea that some people left and are no longer there."}]