Comparamos los honorarios con el plazo de entrega.

Comparamos is the present tense, first person plural form of comparar: we compare.

Spanish usually drops the subject pronoun when the verb ending already makes the subject clear. So:

• Comparamos = we compare
• Nosotros comparamos = we compare too, but with extra emphasis or contrast

You would normally only add nosotros if you want to stress we, for example:

• Nosotros comparamos los honorarios, ellos comparan la calidad.
  We compare the fees; they compare the quality.

Spanish often uses the definite article more than English does.

Here, los honorarios means the fees / the professional fees. In context, it usually refers to a specific set of fees already known or being discussed.

English might say:

• We compare fees...

But Spanish commonly says:

• Comparamos los honorarios...

This does not always sound as specific in Spanish as the fees does in English. Spanish simply prefers the article in many cases.

Honorarios usually means fees, especially professional fees charged by someone such as:

• a lawyer
• a consultant
• an architect
• a doctor
• a freelancer

It is a more specific word than a general word like precio (price).

Useful comparison:

• precio = price
• tarifa = rate / fee / fare, depending on context
• honorarios = professional fees

So honorarios is a good choice when talking about payment for professional services.

With comparar, Spanish commonly uses con to mean with when comparing one thing to another.

Pattern:

• comparar A con B = to compare A with B

So:

• Comparamos los honorarios con el plazo de entrega.

follows the standard structure.

You may also sometimes see comparar A y B, especially when simply listing the two things being compared, but comparar A con B is very common and very natural.

Yes, sometimes you may see comparar A a B, but in modern everyday Spanish, comparar ... con ... is generally the safest and most common choice.

For a learner, it is best to remember:

• comparar algo con algo

That will sound natural in most situations, including in Spain.

El plazo de entrega is a noun phrase made up of:

• el plazo = the period / the deadline / the time frame
• de entrega = of delivery

So literally it is something like the delivery time frame or the delivery deadline.

In practice, depending on context, it can mean:

• delivery deadline
• delivery lead time
• turnaround time
• delivery period

A useful point: de often links nouns in Spanish where English might use another noun as an adjective:

• plazo de entrega = delivery deadline / delivery period
• fecha de salida = departure date
• centro de salud = health centre

Because plazo is a masculine noun, so it takes el in the singular:

• el plazo
• los plazos

This is something you simply have to learn with the noun. The ending -o is often masculine, and here that pattern fits.

Yes. Comparamos is in the present indicative.

In Spanish, the simple present can often translate in more than one way in English, depending on context:

• we compare
• we are comparing

So Comparamos los honorarios con el plazo de entrega could mean either:

• We compare the fees with the delivery time
• We are comparing the fees with the delivery time

If you want to make the ongoing action very explicit, Spanish can also use:

• Estamos comparando los honorarios con el plazo de entrega.

But the simple present is perfectly normal.

Spanish often leaves out possessives when the context already makes ownership or association clear.

So instead of using a possessive, Spanish frequently uses:

• the + noun

For example:

• Comparamos los honorarios...
• Revisamos el contrato...
• Analizamos la propuesta...

Whether the fees belong to us, to them, or to someone else is often understood from the wider context.

The given order is the most neutral and natural:

• Comparamos los honorarios con el plazo de entrega.

But Spanish word order is somewhat flexible, especially for emphasis. For example:

• Los honorarios los comparamos con el plazo de entrega.

This sounds more marked and would usually need a special context.

For normal, straightforward Spanish, keep:

• verb + direct object + con + second element

So the original sentence is a very standard structure.

Usually honorarios is used in the plural when talking about professional fees in general:

• los honorarios del abogado
• los honorarios del consultor

A singular form honorario exists, but in many everyday contexts the plural is much more natural when referring to the amount charged for professional services.

So in this sentence, los honorarios sounds normal and idiomatic.

Grammatically, the sentence is correct, but semantically it can sound a little unusual without more context, because fees and delivery time are different kinds of things.

Still, in a business context it can make sense if the idea is something like:

• weighing cost against speed
• comparing offers based on price and delivery deadline
• evaluating whether higher fees mean faster delivery

In very natural business Spanish, you might also hear something like:

• Comparamos los honorarios y el plazo de entrega.
• Comparamos el coste con el plazo de entrega.
• Evaluamos los honorarios en relación con el plazo de entrega.

But the original sentence is still grammatically fine.

You put no before the verb:

• No comparamos los honorarios con el plazo de entrega.

This means:

• We do not compare the fees with the delivery deadline
• We aren’t comparing the fees with the delivery deadline

That is the standard way to make a sentence negative in Spanish.