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- "Sie machen Kaffee."
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Lowercase sie means "she" or "they". (Capitalised when it's the first word of a sentence, of course.)
Uppercase Sie is formal "you". (This word is always capitalised.) This word is taught later in the course.
du and ihr are informal "you" -- singular and plural, respectively. You'd use them when speaking to a friend or a child, for example, while you would use the polite Sie to speak to an adult stranger (or to several of them -- the polite "you" doesn't make a distinction in German between one or several).
Will709432
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So if in make Sie for they and Sie for you both have the same conjugation machen, then how do we know if it's they or you when sie is capitalised at the start of the sentence?