Kilo Lingo

#951 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to compare

Examples

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Do not compare me with your brother.

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He compared the two languages in his article.

, .

If you compare the two pictures, the difference is clear.

vivon .

She compared her life to a long journey.

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Compare the new grammar with the old one.

The preposition matters. Use X Y when you are setting two things side by side to weigh them, and X Y when you are likening one to the other as a figure of speech. English blurs with and to in the same way, and Esperanto keeps the difference alive. The verb is transitive, so both halves are properly , with -n on the object. The noun is komparo, and nekomparebla means incomparable. For the plain comparative you do not need the verb at all, just ... .

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This word is part of lesson 20.