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Which one of the words above is most suitable in the following sentence and
why?

近所の子供たちが校庭で________遊んでいる。

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grammar meaning word-choice
Differences between 楽しがちに、楽し気味に、楽しげに、楽しっぽく
The correct answer is 楽しげに. This げ roughly means "-looking", and it attaches
mainly to a relatively small set of adjectives that describe emotion. 楽しげ is
[listed as a standalone na-
adjective](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%A5%BD%E3%81%97%E3%81%92) in jisho.org.
Similar words include 悲しげ, 眠たげ, 嬉しげ and さびしげ. See also: [What is the usage of
〜げ and how does it differ from 〜そう or
〜っぽい?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/1386/5010) and [Difference between
〜げ and 〜そう](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/9324/5010)

がち and 気味 are wrong because they only attach to a noun or the masu-stem of a
verb.

  * 病気がち, 遠慮がち, 曇りがち.
  * 風邪気味, 遅れ気味, 押し気味.

-っぽい can attach to many words including i-adjectives:

  * with i-adjectives: 青っぽい "blueish", 安っぽい "cheap-looking"
  * with nouns: 色っぽい, 理屈っぽい, 子供っぽい
  * with verbs: 忘れっぽい, 飽きっぽい

When it attaches to the stem of an i-adjective, it forms another i-adjective
with an added nuance of "-ish" or "-looking". It's not used with adjectives of
emotion. っぽい used like this is not a productive suffix, and you cannot combine
an arbitrary i-adjective with っぽい. We can say 安っぽい and 荒っぽい, but not 高っぽい nor
優しっぽい.

(As an exception, you can use っぽい after the dictionary-form of arbitrary
adjectives and verbs, although this sounds fairly colloquial: 合ってるっぽい "looks
correct", 高いっぽい "looks expensive", 泣いてるっぽい "seems to be weeping". See: [安いらしい,
安いそうだ, and 高っぽい are
incorrect?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/58933/5010))
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