diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 3486a18b5cb1f0..30943b64fd1c0a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1759,7 +1759,14 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
 .. method:: str.capitalize()
 
    Return a copy of the string with its first character capitalized and the
-   rest lowercased.
+   rest lowercased. For example::
+
+      >>> 'PYTHON IS AMAZING'.capitalize()
+      'Python is amazing'
+      >>> 'LJjubljana starts With a non-english digraph'.capitalize()
+      'Ljjubljana starts with a non-english digraph'
+
+   See also :meth:`title`.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       The first character is now put into titlecase rather than uppercase.