Learn Turkish: Biz her zaman birbirimizin fikirlerine saygı duyuyoruz.

It is built from three parts: birbiri (each other) + miz (our) + in (genitive case, like the English "'s"). Even though it translates to "each other's," Turkish adds the "our" suffix first because the subject of the sentence is "we" (biz).

Let's break down fikirlerine. Why doesn't it have the "our" ending (-miz) to match birbirimizin?

This is a great catch! When birbirimizin owns something, the owned item takes the 3rd person possessive ending (like "his/her/their"), not the 1st person "our" ending. So, we use fikirler (ideas) + i (their) to make fikirleri.

What are the final -n- and -e at the end of fikirlerine?

The -e is the dative case ending (meaning "to" or "towards"). The -n- is a buffer letter, which is always required whenever you add a case ending like -e right after a 3rd person possessive ending (like the -i in fikirleri).

Why do we need the dative case (-e) here? And doesn't duyuyoruz mean "we hear"?