Weird Inscription With Ukrainian Word

by native Ukrainian speaker
(Ukraine)

I've just came across products with this inscription on the Net. The text intends to say: "World's Best Dad", the word dad being written in Ukrainian as тата. However, this only Ukrainian word is used in the wrong case.

The nominative case - тато - is the case that must be used here. Instead, the word is used in the form characteristic to genitive and accusative cases.

There are a lot of products with this inscription on the Net (t-shirts, shorts, mugs, caps, aprons, pillows, bags, etc.). I wonder why those who created this inscription have not consulted an English-Ukrainian dictionary before printing the inscription on products. It would cost them nothing and would take a few minutes to refer to the dictionary. If they had consulted the dictionary, they would not have the inscription with a mistake that looks funny and weird to any Ukrainian.

What a show of disrespect to the Ukrainian language and to the customers interested in buying products with Ukrainian inscriptions!

The table below demonstrates how the Ukrainian word тато is declined. Red font shows the place of the stress in the word:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	тато	тати
Genitive	тата	тат
Dative	тату, татові	татам
Accusative	тата	тат
Instrumental	татом	татами
Locative	на/у таті, татові	на/у татах
Vocative	тато	тати