比べる: to compare

兄あにと比くらべると、私わたしは背が低せがひくい。

Compared with my older brother, I am short.

「仲間なかまの数かずをくらべよう」と言いって、和邇わにをならばせて、数かぞえるふりをしながら、背中せなかの上うえをとんで渡わたったのです。

It said, “Let us compare how many of us there are,” made the wani line up, and crossed by jumping over their backs, pretending to count.