[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn a bit more about Italian grammar and I came across the sentence 'They were young.' Can you tell me how to express that in Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of the sentence 'They were young' in Italian is 'Loro erano giovani.' This sentence uses the verb 'essere' (to be) in the imperfect tense to describe a state of being in the past."}]