autant que

French edit

as much as, as far as
Travaillez autant que vous pourrez. ― Work as much as you can.

Je le défends autant que je puis. ― I defend it as much as I can.
- 2011, Jean-Pierre Cabestan, “L'Asie central vue de Chine [Central Asia viewed from China]”, in Relations internationales‎^[1], volume 145, pages 53—70:
  les pays d’Asie centrale ne s’investissent pas autant que la Chine dans l’Organisation de coopération de Shanghai.
  The countries of Central Asia are not as invested as much as China [is] in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
- 1857, Phillippe Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny, Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, page 472:
  Réunies en volumes, ces lettres ont été goûtées en Angleterre presque autant qu’aux États-Unis, et ont eu plusieurs éditions.
  Collected into volumes, these letters have been appreciated in England as much as in the United States, and have had several editions.
as well as
- 1683, Nicolas Boileau, Le Lutrin, volume IV:
  Pour moi, je lis la Bible autant que l’Alcoran.
  As for me, I read the Bible as well as the Quran.
just as well, might as well/may as well
Je n’ai rien à vous dire, alors autant que vous gardiez le silence. ― I have nothing to say to you, so you might as well keep silent.

The verb that follows autant que must be in the subjunctive form.