Voy a Examinarla
Voy A Examinarla
Voy a examinarlo/la — I am going to examine him/her/you(usted)
The lo/la is where usted lives. Usted uses third-person pronouns:
- subject: usted
- direct object: lo/la
- indirect object: le
Your pronoun options for “I am going to examine you”:
| “you” | pronoun | sentence |
| tú | te | Voy a examinarte Te voy a examinar |
| usted | lo/la | Voy a examinarlo Voy a examinarla Lo voy a examinar La voy a examinar |
Usted is a subject pronoun — it tells you who is doing the verb.
But in voy a examinar, I am doing the examining, not usted.
So usted has no role as a subject here.
When usted is the object — the one being examined — it gets replaced by lo/la just like any other third person noun would:
- Voy a examinar al doctor → Voy a examinarlo
- Voy a examinar a usted → Voy a examinarlo/la
Usted behaves exactly like él/ella in object position — it disappears into lo/la.
You could say voy a examinar a usted with the full noun for emphasis or clarity:
- Voy a examinarla a usted, no a su marido — I’m going to examine you, not your husband
But that’s adding usted for contrast, not because it’s grammatically required. The pronoun lo/la is doing the object work; a usted is just underlining who you mean.
- Usted as subject → use usted (or just the verb ending)
- Usted as object → use lo/la
- Usted for emphasis/clarity → a usted can appear alongside lo/la
Direct Object Verbs
Examinar is a verb, within a group of verbs, that generally always take a direct object:
when you examine someone, what you do lands on them but doesn’t affect them
so it gets a direct object pronoun (me, te, lo, la, nos, los, las).
Compare with an indirect object verb like dar:
you give something to someone, and that person actually receives something
this is where the indirect object pronouns live (me, te, le, nos, les).
Other ‘direct object’ verbs that would use lo/la are:
- Ver → to see
- Llamar → to call
- Buscar → to look for
- Encontrar → to find
- Oír → to hear
- Esperar → to wait for
- Ayudar → to help
- Invitar → to invite
- Conocer → to meet / to know
- Seguir → to follow
- Amar → to love
- Abrazar → to hug
- Besar → to kiss
The direct object pronouns lo/la/los/las follow identical placement rules to me/te/se/nos:
- Voy a examinarlo ✅
- Estoy examinándolo ✅
- Examínalo ✅ (affirmative imperative)
- Lo examino ✅ (conjugated verb — floats to front)
And the same accent rules kick in for gerunds and imperatives when you attach a pronoun, because adding a syllable shifts the stress and you have to pin it back with a written accent:
- examinando → examinándolo
- examina → examínalo
That written accent is just preserving where the stress (pronunciation) naturally fell before the suffix arrived.