Comments for "卵を割らなければオムレツは作れない。"

Is this literally closer to " You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg?

Yeah, that is closer

～なければ is a negative conditional form, so literally it would translate to "If you don't break the egg, you can't make an omelette."

Double negatives in the form ~なければ ... ～ない are used more commonly in Japanese than English, and thus are often translated to a positive context in English to sound more natural.