No.461Gen 4 (Sinnoh)
Weavile in Japanese
マニューラ
Manyūra
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
マma
ニュnyu
ーlong vowel
ラra
💡 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 species corners prey as a pack, under the guidance of a leader. Weavile displays increased cunning, leading me to speculate that its evolution caused further brain development.リーダーの指示で群れとして獲物を追い詰めます。進化で知能がさらに発達したと考えられます。
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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