compare

comparar

Examinar dos o más cosas para ver en qué se parecen o se diferencian.

En inglés sencillo: To look at two or more things to see how they are alike or different.

• Compare the two pictures.
• We compared prices before buying the tickets.
• How does this year’s result compare with last year’s?

Cómo se usa: compare A with B (Compare this answer with your first one.); compare A to B (She compared the new model to the old one.)

Sinónimos: collate

Expresiones frecuentes: compare prices, compare with something, compare notes

compararse, estar a la altura

Tener una calidad o un valor semejante al de otra cosa.

En inglés sencillo: To be similar in quality or value to something else.

• Nothing can compare with home.
• This cheap coffee does not compare with hers.
• How do the two hotels compare?

Cómo se usa: compare with someone/something (No other singer can compare with her.); compare to someone/something (The copy does not compare to the original.)

Sinónimos: measure up

Expresiones frecuentes: compare with something, nothing can compare, does not compare

formar los grados

Indicar las formas positiva, comparativa y superlativa de un adjetivo.

En inglés sencillo: To give an adjective’s basic form and its forms meaning more and most.

• Can you compare this adjective?
• The teacher asked us to compare “small.”
• We compared several irregular adjectives in class.

Expresiones frecuentes: compare an adjective, compare irregular adjectives