Breakdown of shinsa wa ashita hajimaru.
Questions & Answers about shinsa wa ashita hajimaru.
は marks 審査 as the topic of the sentence.
So 審査は明日始まる is literally something like:
- As for the review/examination, it starts tomorrow.
In natural English, we usually just say:
- The review starts tomorrow.
A useful point:
- は does not always mean the grammatical subject in the same way English does.
- It often introduces what the sentence is about.
Here, the sentence is talking about the review / screening / judging process, and then says what happens with it: it starts tomorrow.
This is a very common question because these two verbs are related:
- 始まる = to begin / to start (intransitive)
- 始める = to begin / to start something (transitive)
In this sentence, the review is not being treated as something that someone actively starts as a direct object. Instead, the event itself begins.
So:
- 審査は明日始まる。 = The review starts tomorrow.
But if you wanted to say that someone starts the review, you would use 始める:
- 審査を明日始める。 = We/they will start the review tomorrow.
