No.671Gen 6 (Kalos)
Florges in Japanese
フラージェス
Furājesu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
フfu
ラra
ーlong vowel
ジェje
スsu
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
💡 A big kana followed by a small ャ ュ ョ or ァ ィ ゥ ェ ォ is read together as one sound.
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Its life can span several hundred years. It’s said to devote its entire life to protecting gardens.寿命は数百年に及び、生涯を庭を守ることに捧げると言われる。
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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