modality N3 common casualwritten

〜ても始まらない — it's no use ~ing

〜ても始まらない・てもはじまらない

Builds on て形

Meaning

there's no use ~ing / it won't help to ~ — doing the action would accomplish nothing, so don't bother

Used to urge someone (or oneself) to stop a futile action and do something constructive instead.

今いまさら後悔こうかいしても始はじまらない。

There's no use regretting it now.

Attaches to	Form	Example
Verb (て-form)	V-ても + 始まらない	悩なやんでも始まらない / 慌あわてても始まらない

一人ひとりで心配しんぱいしても始はじまらないから、相談そうだんしよう。

Worrying about it alone gets us nowhere, so let's talk it over.

彼かれを責せめても始はじまらない。前まえを向むこう。

There's no point blaming him. Let's look forward.

Jengo shows 〜ても始まらない the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.

Sources Compiled from published Japanese grammar references.