No.598Gen 5 (Unova)
Ferrothorn in Japanese
ナットレイ
Nattorei
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ナna
ッdouble next
トto
レre
イi
💡 The small ッ doubles the next consonant, making a tiny pause (like the "tt" in "Pikka").
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Its spikes are harder than steel. This Pokémon crawls across rock walls by stabbing the spikes on its feelers into the stone.棘は鋼鉄より硬い。触手の棘を岩に突き刺し、岩壁を這い上がる。
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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