No.802Gen 7 (Alola)
Marshadow in Japanese
マーシャドー
Māshadō
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
マma
ーlong vowel
シャsha
ドdo
ーlong vowel
💡 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
This Pokémon can conceal itself in any shadow, so it went undiscovered for a long time.どんな影にも隠れることができるため、長い間発見されなかった。
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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