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I'd say, among the Slavic languages at least in Russian such adjectives are quite productive and don't always "intersect" with genitive semantically. Thus:

  • детская одежда ("childish" clothes = clothes worn by children) ≠ одежда детей (clothes of children, gen)
  • сталинский режим (Stalin's regime, adj) ≠ * режим Сталина (doesn't exist or a completely different meaning)
  • мужской подход (men's approach, adj) ≈ подход мужчины (approach of [a] man, gen)
  • сестрина книга (sister's book, adj) = книга сестры (book of the sister, gen)
  • большевистская революция (bolshevists' revolution, adj) = революция большевиков (bolsheviks' revolution, gen)

Although such adjectives seem to be less productive in Yiddish, it shows a similar system. In Yiddish the genitive is generally substituted by dative with the preposition פון fun (of), although it survives as possessive for personal names or family members:

  • קינדערישע קליידער (kinderishe kleyder, adj) ≠ קליידער פון (די) קינדער (kleyder fun kinder, dat)
  • מענערישער צוגאַנג (menerisher tsugang) ≈ צוגאַנג פון אַ מאַן (tsugang fun a man)
  • באָלשעוויסטישע רעוואָלוציע (bolshevistishe revolutsye, adj) = די רעוואָלצויע פון די באָלשעוויקעס (di revolutsye fun di bolshevikes, dat)
  • only סטאַלינס רעזשים (stalins rezhim, poss)
  • only דאָס בוך פון מיין שוועסטער (dos bukh fun mayn shvester, dat) or מיין שוועסטערס בוך (mayn shvesters bukh, poss)
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