An example sentence for a new word I learned was:

> 徐々にホームシックを克服していってます

What is していってます? Why not just say しています? I understand that its te form of
している, but what is the difference between these two?
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Confused about te-form in a sentence
The いってます part of your sentence is the continuous form of the structure ～ていく.

Consider the difference between いて and いって. These are the te-forms of いる and
いく, respectively. So the いってます part of your sentence

> 徐々にホームシックを克服して **いってます**

is actually ていく with the auxiliary いく itself being used in the te-form. The
structure ～ていく refers to an action which has not yet been finished. In this
case, the speaker is talking about a process of overcoming which is ongoing.
Imagine it being used in other tenses:

> 克服していく I will overcome (by means of a process).  
>  克服していった I overcame (by means of a process).  
>  克服していっている I am overcoming (still in the process).

By the way, even if いる and いく did share the exact same te-form, it still would
not be correct to say いってます to describe a state. The idea of existence and
being in a state is already conceptually contained within the verb いる. You
don't need to put it in the te-form to describe states of being because it
already does that job. But a verb like いく does not contain the same sense of
state, which is why it needs the auxiliary いる.
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