الحيوان الاليف بيهرش عشان عنده برغوت.

Because الاليف is an adjective describing الحيوان, and in Arabic adjectives usually match the noun in definiteness.

So:

• حيوان أليف = a pet animal
• الحيوان الأليف = the pet animal / the pet

This is a very common Arabic pattern: if the noun is definite, the adjective is definite too.

The more standard spelling is الأليف with a hamza.

In informal Arabic writing, people often leave hamzas out, so الاليف is very common online and in casual text. A learner should recognize both as the same word.

So:

• الأليف = standard spelling
• الاليف = casual/non-careful spelling

أليف means something like tame, domesticated, or friendly with humans.

With animals, it often corresponds to pet or pet-like. So الحيوان الأليف is literally the tame/domestic animal, but naturally it means the pet.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

il-ḥayawān il-alīf biyihrash ʿashān ʿandu barghūt

A few notes:

• ال is usually pronounced il or el in Egyptian
• عشان is often said like ʿashān
• عنده is often heard as ʿando or ʿandu
• غ in برغوت is a deep sound, often like a French r or a gargled gh

بيهرش means he scratches or it scratches / is scratching.

In this sentence, it means the pet is scratching itself.

The base verb is related to هرش, which has to do with scratching. In context, بيهرش is the normal everyday Egyptian way to say is scratching or scratches.

In Egyptian Arabic, بيـ is a very common marker for the present tense.

So:

• بيهرش = he/it scratches, he/it is scratching

This form can cover both:

• simple present: it scratches
• present progressive: it is scratching

The exact English translation depends on context.

It means it scratches, not it itches.

That is an important difference:

• to scratch = do the scratching action
• to itch = feel itchy

So الحيوان الاليف بيهرش means the pet is actively scratching itself, probably because of irritation.

Here عشان means because.

So:

• بيهرش عشان عنده برغوت = it is scratching because it has a flea

In Egyptian Arabic, عشان is very common and can also mean so that / in order to in other sentences. But in this sentence, the meaning is clearly because.

Arabic often expresses possession with عند plus a pronoun suffix.

So:

• عنده literally means at him / with him
• but very often it means he has or it has

In this sentence:

• عنده برغوت = it has a flea

This is one of the most common ways to say have in both Egyptian and other Arabic varieties.

Because Arabic does not have a separate everyday pronoun exactly like English it.

Instead, nouns are grammatically either masculine or feminine. حيوان is grammatically masculine, so Arabic uses masculine agreement with it.

That is why you get:

• بيهرش = masculine singular
• عنده = masculine singular suffix -ه

Even though English translates this as it, Arabic is really treating الحيوان as a masculine noun.

Because it is indefinite here: a flea, not the flea.

So:

• عنده برغوت = it has a flea
• عنده البرغوت would mean something more like it has the flea, which is much less natural unless a specific flea has already been mentioned

If you wanted fleas, you would normally use the plural براغيت.

Yes, this word order is very normal in Egyptian Arabic.

The sentence is:

• الحيوان الاليف = the subject
• بيهرش = the verb
• عشان عنده برغوت = the reason

So the structure is basically:

The pet + is scratching + because it has a flea

Egyptian Arabic very often uses this subject-first order in everyday speech.