"You can do everything by yourself."

Translation: אתה יכול לעשות הכל בעצמך.

[Briout]

Shouldn't this have את after לעשות?
לעשות את הכל

[radagastthebrown]

You can use either הכול or את הכול. I feel like there's a slight difference in meaning between them, but I can't put my finger on it.

[airelibre]

I think it's that הכל is more general, and את הכל is for if you're referring back to something specific, say if you have a list of things to do.

[LSadun]

I don't understand. I thought that putting a ה in front of a noun always makes it definite, and that definite direct objects always require את. So how is הכל without את allowed?

[airelibre]

It’s just irregular. Sorry!

[xerostomus]

I am bit puzzled too. I thought it should be either לעשות כל or לעשות את הכל, but not לעשות הכול. ???

[radagastthebrown]

Either הכול or את הכול, the word כל on its own just means "every".

[AdamReisman]

I'm not a native speaker, but the explanation airelibre gave is exactly how I perceive these sentences.

[TeribleT]

Ata yachol la'asot hakol be'atzmecha.

[zion11dotcom]

audio: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/18642246

[RamonBetechM123]

לעשות את הכל