[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm writing a story and one of the characters says 'It was pathetic'. Could you help me translate that sentence into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'It was pathetic' in Italian is 'Era patetico'."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What's the difference between 'patetico' and 'patetica'? I want to make sure I use the correct form in my story."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In Italian, 'patetico' is the masculine form of the adjective, while 'patetica' is the feminine form. Since 'it' is a neutral subject, you would use the masculine form 'patetico' in this sentence, so 'Era patetico' is correct."}]