To Compare
transitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means compare so the verb vocab version is to compare.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: Look at this cooler (くら). Now look at this other cooler. We need to compare the two coolers. Think about all the features each one has and really compare, like you have a list or something.
この二つの写真を比べると、整形したのがハッキリ分かるよ。
If you compare these two pictures, you can clearly see that she had plastic surgery.
他のテキストと比べてみてから決めたら？
Why don't you compare it with other textbooks before you decide?
去年と比べてワニカニユーザーの数が減っているんです。どうしましょう？
The number of WaniKani users is lower compared to last year. What should we do?
それに比べれば、ボクのケースなんてまだマシだよ。
Compared to that, my case is still not that bad.