shinsa wa ashita hajimaru.

topic particle

Breakdown of shinsa wa ashita hajimaru.

• 明日あした: tomorrow
• 始はじまる: to start
• 審査しんさ: screening; an eligibility review

Questions & Answers about shinsa wa ashita hajimaru.

What is は doing in 審査は?

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.

Why is it 始まる and not 始める?

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.