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| Subject | Russian | English |
| Makarov. | сравнивать две вещи | compare the two things |
| gen. | сравнивать две вещи | draw a parallel between two things |
| gen. | сравнивать две разные вещи | balance two things (two tendencies, the two plans, two hostile parties, etc., и т.д.) |
| gen. | сравнивать эти две вещи | compare the two things (the two cases, the two rooms, the two books, these two dramas, the two poems, these children, the brothers, etc., и т.д.) |