Talk:in guter Gesellschaft

Lemmatize at in guter Gesellschaft?

@Skunkassociation: I think this is better lemmatized at in guter Gesellschaft because there are quite a number of different verbs that can go with it: befinden, sein, wissen, etc. These variants are better documented as collocations.

I know that many German dictionaries (including de.wikt) prefer to lemmatize at a form "with bells and whistles" but I think this is misguided in cases where there's a lot of common variation (as here). Pinging also @Fay Freak, Jberkel, Mahagaja who have discussed similar matters in the past. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 13:24, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I was going to ask what the English lemma is, but I see we don't have be in good company or in good company or even good company, so that's no help. —Mahāgaja · talk 13:30, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

@Fytcha: You are totally right, as well as in good company, I have lemmatized other cases in this fashion, e.g. woher der Wind weht. Fay Freak (talk) 14:02, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Compare French en charmante compagnie. PUC – 18:47, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

This is a good idea. To be honest the variety of verbs the phrase can go with didn't cross my mind, thanks for that. Lemma moved and amended. Skunkassociation (talk) 19:47, 30 August 2024 (UTC)