Solresol · 19 October 2026

A word a day week

dofa

DO-fa · two spoken or sung notes · 1–4

  • he
  • she
  • it
  • they

Dofa handles the rest of the pronoun crowd: people, things, singulars, and plurals, with context and prosody doing the sorting.

Seven-note spelling

Say it, play it, flash it

  1. do1 · red
  2. fa4 · green
Treble-clef notation for do · fa dofa
On a modern treble clef, using C4 through B4.

The binary sequence do–fa is the third-person pronoun across subject and object uses. Historical descriptions separately mark gender and number when needed.

Gajewski’s grammar also shows a three-line staff and a special shorthand. Here, the notes appear on a modern treble clef. The C-major pitches are a playback choice; Solresol does not require absolute pitch.

Tiny sentence

Dofa sidofa.

they begin

“They begin.”

A teaching adaptation of the grammar's dore sidofa verb example, substituting the documented third-person pronoun.

Treble-clef notation for do · fa · si · do · fa dofasidofa
On a modern treble clef, using C4 through B4.

There is a short pause between words. The C-major pitches are a playback choice.

Receipts

Sources and cautions

The English dictionary deliberately lists several third-person English pronouns because Solresol does not divide this basic form the same way.