French language Q&A Forum

I've been taught this phrase in another course but never really understood its use -  ça y est. It was presented to me as one of those catchall phrases for "yes, that's right!", "yeah, that's it" as a somewhat utterance one makes to ones self (or to others) that you've been suddenly successful at something or an acknowledgment that you're at least on the right track. So I used this here instead of "c'est ça". Did I use it correctly? I actually had "c'est ça" first but then I changed it to see if I had actually finally found a way to use "ça y est" correctly.

(By the way, why can't I use the hold down the keyboard trick to apply accents, etc in this Q & A box? I have to admit it prevents me oftentimes from asking questions since I can't be precise.)

Are there really no alternatives here for excité? I went for ravi - does this not work this context?

Aussi, comment on traduit le mot "to work" dans cette dernière phrase? Marcher marcherait-il?...

Merci en avance!

Not exactly related to the lesson but one of my quizzes had the sentence: “Je mangeais une nourriture très riche.”

I’m wondering why “une” was used here and not the partitive article “de la”, especially since it’s an unquantified amount of food? This was confusing to me.

the answer given as correct for, Elle fait de la danse , is She takes dance lessons.    Surely it would mention ‘lesson’ in the French? Doesn’t it just mean she goes dancing regularly? 

merci

Does Ne ... pas + Passé composé + depuis longtemps =

a)Tu ne fumes pas depuis longtemps. 

b)Tu n'as pas fumé depuis longtemps

c) Tu ne fumes plus depuis longtemps

If you can say it is seven o'clock at night, sept heures du soir, why can't you say seven o'clock in the morning, sept heures du matin?.......Thirza