No.329Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Vibrava in Japanese
ビブラーバ
Biburāba
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ビbi
ブbu
ラra
ーlong vowel
バba
💡 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
To help make its wings grow, it dissolves quantities of prey in its digestive juices and guzzles them down every day.翼を成長させるため、獲物を消化液で溶かし毎日飲み込みます。
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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