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*dons linguist cap*

(don't let it fool you, German is the only foreign language I retain ANY fluency in; I've forgotten 99.9999% of the French I learned, and that wasn't much, heh)

German Most Basic-est of Basics:

ich=I. They only capitalize pronouns if the pronoun starts the sentence, same as any other word (unless it's the formal-you).

lieben=infinitive of "to love", conjugated with "ich"=liebe

dich=you, in the informal objective sense.

So, you could say "ich liebe dich" to James, or Corey, or your close friends, or a child you were being proud of or something, but adults you're not informally close with you would not say "dich". Sort of like Brit kids in school only addressing their closest friends by first name and the other kids by surname. German popslash fans might discuss Chris in all familiarity (and then some, just like we English-speaking do *g*) but they would address him using the formal "Sie". (Yes, "Sie" is formal-you and capitalized. The uncapitalized "sie" means "she" and is pronounced exactly the same. Why? To teach us English speakers a lesson about languages being confusing, 'cuz that really has NOTHING on English. Ah well.)

And just to be odd: ALL German nouns are capitalized. Every. Time. (Ich habe keine Idee. {I have no idea.})

*doffs cap, grins, bows*