as well

See also: aswell

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) aswell, (obsolete) aswel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æzwɛl/, [æˑzˈwɛːɫ]
• IPA^(key): /æzˈwɛl/, [æˑzˈwɛːɫ]
• IPA^(key): /əzˈwɛl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Adverb

as well (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) In addition; also.

   Synonyms: additionally, too

   Wearing his hat and coat, he looked outside and decided he should take an umbrella as well.

2. To the same effect.

   They might as well walk as drive in this traffic.

   • 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics:

     There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of the female liver.

3. (South Africa) Me too.
4. (UK, colloquial) An intensifier. Actually; really.

   ―Would you though? ―I would as well.

   ―She looks so much like her mum, don't you think? ―Oh my god, she does as well!

   ―Good morning Mr Brown! ―Good morning! I see you've got little Molly [pet dog] out for a stroll as well!

Usage notes

• In Canada, it may be used either at the start of a phrase or at the end.
• The South African use is stressed on “as”.
• The intensifier use is often phatic, divorced from any sense of an addition happening, but in some utterances the degree of phaticness is ambiguous. The non-additive nature can seem odd to speakers of other varieties until they realize that the term can be used this way in British English.

Coordinate terms

• (also or equally): no less

Derived terms

• as well as
• may as well
• might as well

Translations

in addition, also

• Afrikaans: ook (af)
• Arabic: أَيْضًا (ar) (ʔayḍan)
• Bulgarian: също (bg) (sǎšto)
• Catalan: també (ca), així com (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 都 (zh) (dōu), ^{(please verify)} 也 (zh) (yě), ^{(please verify)} 並 / 并 (zh) (bìng), ^{(please verify)} 還 / 还 (zh) (hái), ^{(please verify)} 以及 (zh) (yǐjí), ^{(please verify)} 亦 (zh) (yì) (rare, formal)

• Czech: rovněž (cs)
• Dalmatian: anca
• Danish: også (da)
• Dutch: ook (nl)
• Egyptian: (mjtt)
• Esperanto: ankaŭ (eo)
• Estonian: samuti (et), ka (et)
• Faroese: eisini
• Finnish: myös (fi), lisäksi (fi), -kin (fi)
• French: aussi (fr), ^{(please verify)} autant que (fr)
• Friulian: ancje
• Georgian: ასევე (ka) (aseve), აგრეთვე (ka) (agretve), -ც (-c)
• German: auch (de), ^{(please verify)} sowie (de)
• Greek: επίσης (el) (epísis), κιόλας (el) (kiólas)
• Hebrew: כמו (he) (Kmo)
• Icelandic: líka (is)
• Indonesian: juga (id)
• Ingrian: kera, tože
• Irish: freisin, chomh maith, fosta (ga), leis
• Istriot: anca
• Italian: anche (it)
• Japanese: も (ja) (mo), ^{(please verify)} 及び (ja) (および, oyobi)
• Korean: 도 (-do), 또한 (ko) (ttohan), 역시(亦是) (ko) (yeoksi)
• Navajo: dóʼ
• Norman: étout (Jersey, Guernsey), itou (continental Normandy)
• Norwegian: også (no)
• Plautdietsch: uk
• Polish: też (pl), także (pl)
• Portuguese: também (pt)
• Russian: та́кже (ru) (tákže), ^{(please verify)} и ... и ... (ru) (i ... i ...)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuideachd
• Spanish: también (es)
• Swedish: likaså (sv), också (sv)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} เช่นเดียวกัน (chên dieow gan)
• Tocharian B: rano
• Turkish: de (tr), da (tr)
• Ukrainian: тако́ж (uk) (takóž), ще (uk) (šče), теж (tež)
• Venetan: anca (vec)

to the same effect

• Afrikaans: ook (af)
• Bulgarian: също добре (sǎšto dobre)
• Catalan: igualment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: lige så godt
• Dutch: net zo goed
• Estonian: samahästi
• Finnish: yhtä hyvin, aivan sama, samalla vaivalla, -han (fi), -hän (fi)
• French: tout aussi bien, aussi bien (fr)
• Georgian: ასევე (ka) (aseve), აგრეთვე (ka) (agretve)
• German: genauso gut
• Italian: allo stesso modo
• Korean: 그럴 바에 (geureol ba-e)
• Malagasy: ihany koa
• Polish: równie dobrze
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: хоть ..., хоть ... (ru) (xotʹ ..., xotʹ ...)
• Scottish Gaelic: a cheart cho math
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: так са́мо (uk) (tak sámo), теж (tež)

References

• “as well”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Sewall