Niemand weet of my nig dalk later nog koek sal bak nie.

Here of means whether (and in natural English, often if).

It introduces an indirect yes/no question after weet:

• Niemand weet ... = Nobody knows ...
• of my nig dalk later nog koek sal bak = whether my cousin might still bake cake later

So the structure is basically:

• Niemand weet of ... = Nobody knows whether ...

It does not mean or here.

That is a very common question.

Afrikaans often has a double negative pattern, but when you already have a negative word like niemand (nobody), that word carries the first negative idea, and the sentence is then closed with a final nie.

So:

• Niemand = nobody
• final nie = closes the negative sentence

That is why you get:

• Niemand weet ... nie.

The sentence is still behaving like standard Afrikaans negation, but the first negative element is built into niemand.

Because the main clause is what is being negated:

• Niemand weet ... nie = Nobody knows ...

The part after of is a subordinate clause attached to weet. In Afrikaans, the closing nie for the main clause often comes after the whole subordinate clause.

Compare:

• Ek dink nie dat hy kom nie.
• Niemand weet of my nig ... sal bak nie.

So even though the uncertainty is inside the of-clause, the negation belongs to Niemand weet, and the final nie comes at the very end.

Because of introduces a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Afrikaans usually push the finite verb toward the end.

Main clause order:

• My nig sal dalk later nog koek bak.

After of, the clause becomes subordinate:

• of my nig dalk later nog koek sal bak

So English speakers often notice that Afrikaans changes word order after words like:

• dat = that
• omdat = because
• as = if/when
• of = whether

That is exactly what is happening here.

Sal is the future auxiliary, usually meaning will / shall.

But English translation depends on the whole sentence, not just one word. Here the uncertainty comes from:

• of = whether
• dalk = perhaps / maybe
• Niemand weet = nobody knows

So although sal itself is basically a future marker, the overall meaning in English can sound more natural as:

• whether my cousin might bake cake later
• or whether my cousin will perhaps bake cake later

So sal does not by itself mean might; the softer, uncertain feeling comes from the whole construction.

Dalk means perhaps, maybe, or possibly.

It adds uncertainty:

• my nig later nog koek sal bak = my cousin will still bake cake later
• my nig dalk later nog koek sal bak = my cousin may/perhaps will still bake cake later

In everyday English, you often would not translate it word-for-word. You would usually express the whole idea more naturally as might, maybe, or perhaps.

Nog is a very flexible word in Afrikaans, and that can be confusing.

It can mean things like:

• still
• yet
• again
• more / another

In this sentence, later nog means something like:

• still later
• later on
• at some later point

So here nog is not really again. It adds the idea that the baking may still happen later, even if it has not happened yet.

Nig usually means a female cousin.

Afrikaans often distinguishes by gender:

• neef = male cousin
• nig = female cousin

Since English cousin does not show gender, the translation is often just cousin unless the female meaning matters.

So my nig is specifically my female cousin.

Because Afrikaans can omit the indefinite article when speaking about a thing in a more general or activity-based way.

So:

• koek bak = bake cake / do some cake-baking
• 'n koek bak = bake a cake

Both can be possible, but they are not exactly the same in feel.

Without 'n, the sentence sounds more general and less focused on one specific cake. With 'n koek, it would point more clearly to one cake.

Not always. Bak can have a broader range, depending on context, including ideas like bake, roast, or sometimes fry.

But in this sentence, because the object is koek, the meaning is clearly bake:

• koek bak = bake cake

So even though bak can be broader in other contexts, here bake is the natural meaning.