Niemand wil sonder ’n mes en vurk eet nie.

Yes. Niemand means nobody / no one.

In this sentence, Niemand is the subject:

• Niemand wil sonder ’n mes en vurk eet nie.
• Nobody wants to eat without a knife and fork.

It works very much like English nobody or no one. Because niemand is already negative, it affects how negation works in the rest of the sentence.

Afrikaans often uses nie to mark negation, and it frequently appears at the end of the clause.

In this sentence, the subject Niemand already carries the negative meaning, so you do not add an earlier nie as well. You only get the final nie:

• Niemand wil sonder ’n mes en vurk eet nie.

This is standard Afrikaans.

Compare:

• Hy wil nie sonder ’n mes en vurk eet nie.
  = He does not want to eat without a knife and fork.

Here, hy is not negative by itself, so Afrikaans uses the usual nie ... nie pattern.

But with niemand, niks, geen, etc., the first negative element is already present, so usually only the final nie appears.

Because wil is a modal verb here, and Afrikaans usually sends the main verb to the end of the clause.

Structure:

• Niemand = subject
• wil = modal verb (wants to)
• sonder ’n mes en vurk = prepositional phrase
• eet = main verb, placed at the end
• nie = final negative marker

So:

• Niemand wil sonder ’n mes en vurk eet nie.

This is similar to Dutch and German-style word order more than to English.

A useful pattern is:

• Subject + modal verb + other information + main verb + nie

For example:

• Ek wil vandag huis toe gaan.
  = I want to go home today.

No. In this sentence, wil means want to, not future will.

So:

• Ek wil eet = I want to eat
• Sy wil gaan = She wants to go

This can be confusing for English speakers because wil looks like will, but its meaning is usually want.

Afrikaans often uses the present tense plus time words to talk about the future, rather than a special future form like English will.

Sonder means without.

It is a preposition, so it comes before the noun phrase:

• sonder water = without water
• sonder geld = without money
• sonder ’n mes en vurk = without a knife and fork

So in your sentence:

• sonder ’n mes en vurk = without a knife and fork

Afrikaans often uses one indefinite article for a natural pair or combined idea:

• ’n mes en vurk = a knife and fork

This is very natural. It treats the two items as one set.

You can sometimes repeat the article for emphasis or clarity, but normally you would just say:

• ’n mes en vurk
• ’n pa en ma
• ’n koppie en piering

So here, one ’n is enough.

The Afrikaans indefinite article is written ’n and means a / an.

A few important points:

• It is always written in lowercase, even at the beginning of a sentence.
• The apostrophe is part of the spelling.
• In normal speech, it is usually pronounced as a weak neutral vowel, like uh.

So:

• ’n mes sounds roughly like uh mes
• ’n vurk sounds roughly like uh furk

If a sentence starts with it, the next word gets the capital letter, not ’n itself. For example:

• ’n Mes lê op die tafel.

Approximate pronunciations:

• mes: like English mess
• vurk: roughly furk, but with an Afrikaans v

A few notes:

• vurk means fork
• The u in vurk is not exactly the same as English u, but furk is a reasonable approximation for learners.
• r in Afrikaans is often trilled or tapped more clearly than in many English accents.

So mes en vurk is approximately:

• mess en furk

Normally, no. That would sound wrong or nonstandard in ordinary Afrikaans.

Because Niemand is already negative, you do not add the first nie. You just keep the final one:

• Niemand wil sonder ’n mes en vurk eet nie.

This is a useful rule to remember:

• If the sentence already has a negative word like niemand (nobody), niks (nothing), or geen (no / none), you usually do not add another early nie.
• But you still usually get the final nie.

Because the sentence is talking about the idea of eating with a knife and fork as a normal set, not about multiple knives and forks.

So singular is natural:

• ’n mes en vurk

If you said messe en vurke, that would mean actual multiple knives and forks, which does not fit the meaning here.

English does the same thing:

• without a knife and fork
  not
• without knives and forks

It is very common as a natural pair, yes.

Just like English often treats knife and fork as a standard combination, Afrikaans does the same with mes en vurk.

Because it is such a familiar pair, it sounds very natural to use one article for the whole phrase:

• ’n mes en vurk

Learners should think of it almost as a set expression in many contexts involving eating formally or properly.

A useful breakdown is:

• Niemand = subject
• wil = modal verb
• sonder ’n mes en vurk = prepositional phrase
• eet = infinitive/main verb at the end
• nie = final negation marker

So the pattern is:

• Subject + modal + other information + main verb + nie

This is a very common Afrikaans structure.

If you learn this sentence as a model, you can build others like it:

• Niemand wil vandag werk nie.
  = Nobody wants to work today.
• Niemand kan so vinnig hardloop nie.
  = Nobody can run that fast.
• Niemand mag hier rook nie.
  = Nobody may smoke here.