I am new to qualifying nouns.

Why is the adjective of `好きな` used here instead of just `好き` as a noun?

> 猫が **好きな** 女の人は私の友達です

Does that means it is wrong to say:

> 猫が **好き** あの女の人は私の友達です

I am used to seeing `猫が好き`, which is why seeing the adjective is weird to me.
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grammar adjectives relative-clauses nouns
Noun or Adjective?
好き is an adjectival noun. It is that, whether you see the な or not. The
correct way to connect an adjectival noun to a noun it's modifying, is with a
な. The correct way to connect _other_ kinds of nouns is most often with a の
(or else である).

You can say 猫が好きあの女の人は私の友達です, but if you do so you've inserted the additional
word あの ("that woman"), which may not be appropriate in all the same places
the original is, and has a slightly different meaning. This sentence is also
technically grammatically wrong without the な, but I feel like it could be
used this way in "real" Japanese. Reordering it to あの猫が好きな女の人は is more
correct, though.

猫が好きな女 = Woman who likes cats (or possibly: whom cats like)  
画家の女 = Woman who is a painter
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