Personal Pronouns and Verb Conjugation

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Hallo! Guten Tag! :)
Before getting to the point (which is personal pronouns and verb conjugation), I would like to share the question that I'm quite frequently faced with. Last time it happened as follows:
It was a slow office day. I had been wondering what to do. Luckily, a friend stopped by at my seat.
Friend: So.. Wassup?
Me: Well.. I've recently started blogging. Here it is: http://www.deutschmadeeasier.com/
Friend: Cool! So you know German. Say something in German!
Me: Okay.. Mein Name is Shruti. Ich komme aus Indien. Ich bin Ingeneurin von Beruf. Ich bin..
Friend: Slow!! I don't know German. Anyway, tell me.. How do you say "I love you." in German?
So, this is the most frequently asked question. Now, coming back to the point. In "I love you.":
  • "I" and "you" are personal pronouns.
  • "to love" is the verb of the sentence.
  • "I" is the subject of the sentence, i.e., it takes the nominative case.
  • "you" is the object of the sentence, i.e., it takes the accusative case.
  • verb "to love" is conjugated according to the subject, which is "I" in this case.
You may refer German Grammar Overview to know about the cases [nominative and accusative].

Personal Pronouns

The above figure depicts personal pronouns [nominative case] in German. Few points to be noted here:
1. Out of all the pronouns, Sie [the polite way of addressing] is always capitalized. Other pronouns are capitalized only when they take the first position in the sentence.
2. The nouns are replaced by pronouns based on their articles. For example:
Der Bleistift ist neu.
Er                 ist neu. 
Die Tasche ist billig. 
Sie               ist billig.
Das Buch ist alt. 
Es             ist alt.



Verb Conjugation

As mentioned in the beginning of the post, the verb is conjugated according to the subject. Let us see how the verb "lieben" [which means to love] is conjugated. In lieben, lieb is the stem of the verb. To conjugate a verb, its stem appended with endings as follows:
ich
liebe
wir
lieben
du
liebst
ihr
liebt
Sie
lieben
Sie
lieben
er/sie/es
liebt
sie
lieben


Now we know how do we say "I love" in German. We also know that "you" is called "du" in German. However, "you" is the accusative object in the sentence "I love you.", and du changes to dich in its accusative form.

Concluding the post with the answer to the quite frequently asked question. It is:
Ich liebe dich.

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