kijimihon o kuraberu.

I compare fabric swatches.

Breakdown of kijimihon o kuraberu.

• を: direct object particle
• 比くらべる: to compare
• 生地見本きじみほん: a fabric swatch

Questions & Answers about kijimihon o kuraberu.

How do you read 生地見本を比べる?

A natural reading is:

• 生地見本 = きじみほん
• を = o
• 比べる = くらべる

So the whole sentence is read:

きじみほん を くらべる。

A few notes:

• 生地 = fabric / cloth material
• 見本 = sample / specimen
• 比べる = to compare

Even though を is written with the kana を, in modern Japanese it is pronounced お, not wo in normal speech.

What does を do here?

を marks the direct object of the verb.

In this sentence:

• 生地見本 = the thing being compared
• 比べる = to compare

So 生地見本を比べる literally means something like:

• compare fabric samples

You can think of the pattern as:

noun + を + verb

where the noun is what the action is done to.

Why is 比べる at the end?