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die Großschreibung

In English: capitalization

German writes every noun with a capital letter, not only names, and also any word used as a noun. The formal pronouns Sie, Ihnen and Ihr are capitalized too, but ich is not.

Example: Am Morgen trinke ich Tee und lese die Zeitung.

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See also

das Nomen / das Substantiv die Höflichkeitsform (Sie) das substantivierte Adjektiv

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