No.260Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Swampert in Japanese
ラグラージ
Ragurāji
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ラra
グgu
ラra
ーlong vowel
ジji
💡 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
Swampert predicts storms by sensing subtle differences in the sounds of waves and tidal winds with its fins. If a storm is approaching, it piles up boulders to protect itself.ラグラージはヒレを使って波や潮風の音の微妙な違いを感知し、嵐を予知します。嵐が近づくと、身を守るために岩を積み上げる。
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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