No.023Gen 1 (Kanto)
Ekans in Japanese
アーボ
Ābo
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アa
ーlong vowel
ボbo
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
The older it gets, the longer it grows. At night, it wraps its long body around tree branches to rest.年を取るほど体が長くなる。夜は長い体を木の枝に巻き付けて休む。
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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