[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I've come across the sentence 'I was afraid of Tom.' Can you please help me translate it into Italian so I can better understand how to express this feeling in the language?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'I was afraid of Tom' in Italian is 'Io avevo paura di Tom.' This sentence uses the imperfect tense 'avevo' to express a past feeling of fear, and 'paura' is the noun for fear. So, 'Io avevo paura di Tom' is the correct way to express that you were afraid of Tom in the past."}]