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Lieben is the verb for to love. There are a great many ways to say dear: beliebte, teure, lieb, as well as adding the suffex -chen to the end of a proper noun or even a name (sort of like the English suffix -ling, as in darling, from dear-ling). Much like in English, it's a matter of which form is idiomatically preferred. In English, we don't use the term Robert-ling to tell someone they're dear to us, but in Yiddish or Hebrew, it's still common to use the suffix -la, as in Rivkahla. Teure is a cognate of Dear, and has many of the same uses.

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Yes. Liebe can be used for both dear and love:

At the start of a letter:

Liebe Stephanie = dear Stepanie

N.b. the male form gains an 'r'

Lieber Robert = dear Robert

Die Liebe ist etwas schönes = Love is a thing of beauty

Ich liebe Fußball = I love football

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