Here is the fully completed version of the grammar exercise with all the blanks correctly filled in Italian, preserving the original text, plus an English translation for clarity:
Greta: Ciao cara, come (1) stai?
Ludovica: Ciao tesoro. Tutto bene! Non sai cosa mi (2) è successo!
Greta: Dimmi!
Ludovica: Io e Gianni lo scorso weekend (3) siamo andati a Roma per festeggiare il nostro anniversario.
(4) Abbiamo prenotato l’hotel tantissimo tempo fa e dalle foto (5) sembrava bellissimo, invece (6) era terribile! La camera (7) era molto più piccola e poi (8) era sporca.
Greta: E che cosa (9) fate, voi?
Ludovica: Beh, tu che (10) fai? Ovviamente (11) siamo andati via! Speravo che mi (12) dessero un rimborso, ma niente!
Greta: Mi dispiace… spero che tu (13) possa fare presto una vacanza migliore.
Ludovica: Speriamo! (14) Vogliamo andare a Parigi! Se non ricordo male, tu ci (15) vai tra due mesi, giusto?
Translation:
Greta: Hi dear, how are you?
Ludovica: Hi darling. All good! You don’t know what happened to me!
Greta: Tell me!
Ludovica: Gianni and I last weekend went to Rome to celebrate our anniversary.
We booked the hotel a long time ago and from the photos it looked beautiful, but instead it was terrible! The room was much smaller and then it was dirty.
Greta: And what are you guys doing?
Ludovica: Well, what are you doing? Obviously we left! I hoped they would give me a refund, but nothing!
Greta: I’m sorry… I hope you can have a better vacation soon.
Ludovica: Let’s hope! We want to go to Paris! If I remember correctly, you are going there in two months, right?
[dessero] is the third person plural of the imperfect subjunctive (congiuntivo imperfetto) of the verb [dare] ("to give"). It is used to express doubt, wishes, or hypothetical conditions, often introduced by phrases expressing hope, desire, doubt, necessity, or uncertainty.
For example, in the sentence Speravo che mi dessero un rimborso, it means "I hoped that they would give me a refund." Here dessero expresses a desired or hypothetical action in the past.
It's important to distinguish this from informal or incorrect variants like "dassero." [dessero] is the grammatically correct form in Italian for this mood and tense.
In short, [dessero] is an imperfect subjunctive form used for expressing hoped-for or uncertain past actions attributed to "they."
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