(a) like; un homme ~ lui a man like him; un ordinateur comme celui de son frère a computer like his brother's; un jour ~ un autre an ordinary day; c'est une excuse ~ une autre it's as good an excuse as any

(b) as, the same way, in the same way that (frm), like (Infml); il écrit comme il parle he writes the way he speaks; ~ il vous plaira as you wish; ~ tu le vois, je préfère le pastis as you can see, I prefer pastis; (humorous) ~ il lui sied as is his wont; ~ de juste naturally, needless to say

(c) (in giving examples) like, such as

(d) as, as well as; les garçons ~ les filles both the boys and the girls; sur la terre ~ au ciel on earth as it is in heaven

(e) (in the capacity of) as; (as an example of) by way of, in the way of, in terms of; ~ professeur, il doit... as a teacher, he must...; je trouve dur ~ travail I find it hard as jobs go; travailler ~ professeur to work as a teacher; tu prends quoi ~ dessert? what are you having for dessert?; vous avez quoi ~ dessert? what do you have by way of desserts?

(f) (to designate one thing happening at the same time as another) as; juste ~ just as

(g) since, as, seeing that, seeing as (dialectal)

(h) ~ si as though, as if; ~ si de rien n'était as though nothing had happened

(i) ~ pour faire as if to do; ~ quoi to the effect that; which goes to show that