No.623Gen 5 (Unova)
Golurk in Japanese
ゴルーグ
Gorūgu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ゴgo
ルru
ーlong vowel
グgu
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 4 characters above and you can read “ゴルーグ” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
There’s a theory that inside Golurk is a perpetual motion machine that produces limitless energy, but this belief hasn’t been proven.体内に永久機関があるという説がある。“無限のエネルギー”を持つとも言われるが未証明。
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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