Präsens
What is happening now, habits, and plans: morgen fahre ich.
- es kommt zugute
- sie kommen zugute
to benefit
Strong verb, separable, auxiliary sein.
Conjugated like ankommen, mitkommen, entkommen, hereinkommen, klarkommen, hinkommen
Separable: zugute
In a main clause, zugute goes to the end: es kommt … zugute. It stays joined in a subordinate clause (…, dass es zugutekommt), in the participle zugutegekommen, and with zu: zugutezukommen.
Enough to talk about now, your plans, and what you did.
What is happening now, habits, and plans: morgen fahre ich.
The everyday past in speech: haben or sein plus the participle.
The past of stories, books, and the news. In speech, the Perfekt is more common.
Polite requests, wishes, and what would happen: ich würde gern…
Promises, predictions, and guesses about now: das wird stimmen. The present often says the future: morgen fahre ich.
A past action completed before another past action.
Hypotheses and wishes in one word. In speech, würde + infinitive replaces it, except for common verbs: käme, ginge, wüsste.
What would have happened, and regrets: wenn ich das gewusst hätte…
Reported speech, in the news and in writing, mostly with er, sie, es: sie sagt, er sei krank.
An action finished before a future moment, or a guess about the past: er wird es vergessen haben.