As I’ve been immersing, I’ve come across these two grammar patterns a lot, but don’t really know the difference or what they really mean. Can anyone help explain the difference to me? Thanks in advance.
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The comparison on the grammar pages is not helpful? It’s all about direction of movement.
In a way, I think it’s similar to てあげる and てくれる, which in the case points towards the “receiver” of the verb.
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Yeah I read that but I’m still confused as like how to use it. I’m sorry, but that just doesn’t make much sense to me 
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Could you give an example that confuses you?
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like this: お金かねがなくなってきた. I don’t really understand what te kuru is really doing here. I could just be being stupid but I dunno
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Just to check, do you know the verbs 行く（いく）and 来る（くる）? I think the grammar points make a lot of sense when you equate ~teiku and ~tekuru with going and coming.
傘を持っていく to go (outside) and take an umbrella
だんだん私の料理がおいしくなってきた gradually my cooking came to be tasty. Or: became tasty (!!)
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Ahh yes, this is a bit of an abstract usage. It conveys the idea of a situation that has come to be.
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Yeah I understand the first part but I shouldve specified that I didn’t get that specific usage of it. Mb
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The example sentence お母さんになって来ましたfinally made it click for me.
I’ve become my mother. In this sentence the て来る is like 've. It’s offen used with become.
Or 'My cooking has [てきた]become[なって] tasty above.
And your example I’ve become rich. With have
does that help?