(a) too, also, (at the end of a long sentence) as well; je travaille au MacDo et lui aussi I work at McDonald's and so does he (or) and he does too; toi ~ tu travailles là-bas? do you work there too?; ils parlent aussi l'anglais they speak ENGLISH too (or) as well; eux aussi ils parlent anglais THEY speak English too (or) as well

(b) (in comparatives) as; ~ grand que Paul as tall as Paul (is); ~ grand que moi as tall as me, as tall as I am, (in pretentious or formal usage) as tall as I; ~ vite que possible as quickly as possible; ~ bien just as easily, just as well; ~ bien que as well as, not to mention

(c) (in exclamatory usage: often equivalent to si) so, that; je ne l'avais pas cru ~ idiote I didn't think she was that stupid; je ne suis pas ~ dupe que tu voudrais le croire I'm not as foolish as you'd like to think; ~ bizarre que cela puisse paraître strange as this may seem

(d) (used at the beginning of a sentence, often with subject-verb inversion) therefore, consequently