"The soldiers hit the lazy cook."

Translation: Milites coquum ignavum pulsant.

[AiAlAguilar]

Wait a minute... Is this the same cook of some sentences before?
Maybe Latin course does not have stories(like English,French etc.), but at least has these related stories.

[Richlogos]

A bonus (literary) word for Spanish and Italian speakers: «ignavo» :)

[PERCE_NEIGE]

i + gnavus. Latin Gnavus = active, diligent, busy.

[SuzanneNussbaum]

A different order of the words marked incorrect:
Coquum ignavum milites pulsant.

And yet an 'English-style' word order (Milites pulsant coquum ignavum) was acceptable.

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Just report it, you know that different word orders are added when you use the report button. They don't check the forum to add alternative answers.

[SGuthrie0]

As a note: the standard Latin word order is SOV -- Subject, object, verb.
Maybe Duo wants us to use that as our standard.

Reference: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-latin-word-order-119444

[ZacharyTan16]

based

[Ecclemain]

"Milites coquum pigrum pulsant." is alright too?

[SuzanneNussbaum]

Yes, there's nothing wrong with the adj. piger, pigra, pigrum, "lazy".

[KlausLuger999]

Back when smacking lazy Cooks was a thing.