Ursula & Ariel in Hebrew, The little mermaid

Ursula(the witch of the sea) has a little conversation with Ariel:).
beautiful scene.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ursula
• Ariel
• Little
• Mermaid
• Hebrew
• Disney

[ianjames537]

I'm always impressed by how they manage to translate these songs into rhyme.

Question for any Hebrew speakers: why does Ursula say that she can turn the mermaid into a BEN adam. Shouldn't it properly be BAT adam? (At around 2:55, she does use the phrase bat adam).

[MsEerie]

indeed...

[jeishiikanzaki]

Hey, that lady did a good job at doing Ursula's voice.

[MsEerie]

hey..her name is of Rachel Attas

or in hebrew

רחל אטאס

(of blessed memory)

[TRISAND]

cool! if i only knew hebrew

[linoy147]

אתם לא יודעים עברית?

[misolico]

@ianjames537

well this time I actually watched the whole clip and you were totally right, she should have used bat-adam in both cases as Ariel is a female. It's a mistake, period.

she probably had bat-adam in her script in both cases and she missed the first one, thats the explanation I can think of, unless someone else can show me a better explanation.

[ianjames537]

@misolico

That's more or less what I thought, but when she says "ben adam" here, she is speaking specifically to Ariel ("at t'hi"). Anyway, I defer to all the native Hebrew speakers here re the idiom.

[misolico]

@ianjames537

since, when u speak specifically you must use the right gender, but when u

speak of a general noun u use the mascular form.

[CuzImSleepy]

@ianjames537

in hebrew you can say BEN ADAM for boy and girl like you can say humen in english for both genders.

It does'nt really matter

[DanielHarel]

he is right, ben adam is more generally, usually kids say it as slang.

[misolico]

ben adam is a human , generally speaking. its not a mistake, its just "human /humane"

bat-adam is more specific and she did use it.