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A is usually an emotion or feeling.
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彼 は 寂 し げ に 言 っ た 。 「 僕 と 彼 女 は 終 わ り か も 知 れ な い 。 」 
He spoke as if he was lonely: "my girlfriend and I might be finished."
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彼 は 何 か を 言 い た げ だ っ た 。 
It looks like he wanted to say something.

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Construction
(Elements in parentheses are optional.)
Aい-adjective
-い
げ
に
Basic Examples:
面白げに (looks interested(interesting))

Aな-adjective
げ
に
Basic Examples:
無邪気げ (looks innocent)

ANoun
げ
Notes
A な can be added to use げ as an adjective.
Related Expressions
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Anonymous123
Level: 1199
(1 year ago)

Young people sometimes use ”無さげ" and "良さげ", but they are considered to be grammatically incorrect by some.

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Discussion about this grammar
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aileen
Level: 1
The kanji for this is 気.

Formation:
いＡ(take off い)+げ
なＡ+げ
N+げ

***Adding 気 makes it a な adjective：
~げだ
~げに+Ｖ
~げな+Ｎ
Credit, where it's due => http://dev.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=ge
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15 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 262
Thanks - added most of the new info. A lot of it was originally in there, just..not getting processed and outputted correctly.
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15 years ago
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Javona
Level: 1
In the "How to use" construction, there are two different kanjis that have been used for げ. In the first example it says, 面白実に (looks interested(interesting)). Should this be 面白気に (looks interested(interesting))?
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12 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 262
Dictionary binding error, but it is fixed now. Thanks!
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12 years ago
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gdartfow
Level: 1490

The second example sentence does not use this grammar.

Perhaps it was meant to be 言いたげにした?

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2 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 262

Thanks - the correct Japanese was in the system, but the parsing for it was off.

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2 years ago
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