Illustration: At a home kitchen counter, two siblings place cucumbers from their balcony garden side by side, carefully aligning their bottom ends against the edge of a cutting board. One cucumber is straight and short; the other curves extravagantly and reaches farther.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

比くらべる

kuraberu

to compare

Example sentences

地球ちきゅうは太陽たいように比くらべて小ちいさい。
The earth is small in comparison with the sun.
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以前いぜんと比くらべるとよくなった。
It’s better than it was before.
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彼かれは弟おとうとと比くらべて若わかく見みえた。
He looked young beside his brother.
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Kanji in 比

比compare; raceOnヒKunくらべる

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