No.096Gen 1 (Kanto)
Drowzee in Japanese
スリープ
Surīpu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
スsu
リri
ーlong vowel
プpu
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
If you sleep by it all the time, it will sometimes show you dreams it had eaten in the past.常にそばで眠っていると、過去に食べた夢を見せてくれることがある。
The Japanese text is a translation of the English entry, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana. Try to spot the katakana words!
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