"I am buying half of the apples."

Translation: Kupuję połowę jabłek.

[Craig842379]

Why doesn't 'Kupuję pół jabłek' not work here?

[alfaro.sal]

Maybe someone can help us with this?

[Jellei]

"pół" is more like the numeral 0,5. It doesn't really make sense with a plural noun. You can have "pół jabłka", "pół kilograma jabłek", but not "pół jabłek".

Granted, 'half of the apples' isn't the most intuitive thing to say... but as I wrote in another comment, it's like "half of the apples they had".

[Philipp88107]

I know this doesn't make much sense but what if someone would sell half-apples? Like: I bought 6 half-apples. Would there work "pół jabłek"?

[Jellei]

I guess "połowy/połówki jabłek".

[psifish]

Why do we use jabłek here instead of jabłka?

[Jellei]

Half of the apples (they had in the shop, for example), not half of one apple.

[edB4zK]

When we speak about an amount OF something, the "something" is in Genitive.

[akbargumbira]

in what case is połowę here? is it Bernik?

[mihxal]

Yes, you use "kupować" with Accusative.

połowa [Nominative] -> połowę [Accusative].

[Kendra800150]

Kupuję połowę z jabłek?

[Jellei]

It's like "half out of the apples"... I can't guarantee it's completely wrong, but it sounds pretty strange to me.