فيه قطة صغيرة عند جيراننا، والقطة بتحب الزرع.

In Egyptian Arabic, فيه is a very common way to say there is / there are.

So:

فيه قطة صغيرة = There is a small cat

A useful thing to remember: فيه does not change for singular vs. plural the way English does. You can use it with one thing or many things.

Arabic does not have an indefinite article like English a / an.

So a bare noun like قطة can mean a cat when it is indefinite.
If you want the cat, Arabic usually adds ال:

• قطة = a cat
• القطة = the cat

That is why the first mention is قطة صغيرة, not القطة الصغيرة.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• قطة صغيرة = literally cat small
• natural English meaning: a small cat

This is the normal word order in Arabic.

Because قطة is feminine, and Arabic adjectives must agree with the noun in gender and number.

So:

• قطة is feminine singular
• therefore صغيرة is also feminine singular

If the noun were masculine, the adjective would change form.

Also, if the noun were definite, the adjective would become definite too:

• القطة الصغيرة = the small cat

Arabic adjectives usually agree in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

عند often means at, by, or with, depending on context.

Here, عند جيراننا means something like:

• at our neighbors’ place
• with our neighbors
• by our neighbors

جيراننا breaks down like this:

• جيران = neighbors
• نا = our

So جيراننا = our neighbors

Also, جيران is the plural of جار (neighbor).

Because by the second clause, the cat has already been introduced. It is now a specific, known cat, so Arabic naturally uses the definite form:

• first mention: قطة صغيرة = a small cat
• second mention: القطة = the cat

This works very much like English: first a cat, then the cat.

Repeating the noun is very normal in Arabic, especially in everyday speech.

So:

والقطة بتحب الزرع = and the cat likes the plants/greenery

Arabic could also say:

وهي بتحب الزرع = and it/she likes the plants

But repeating القطة sounds natural and clear. Arabic often repeats nouns more freely than English does.

بتحب means she likes / she loves here.

It comes from the verb حب (to love / like), and in Egyptian Arabic the prefix بـ often marks the regular present tense.

So:

• بتحب = she likes / she loves
• with this subject, it matches القطة

Because قطة is feminine, the verb is in the feminine singular form.

A useful note: بتحب can also mean you (masc. singular) like/love in other contexts. The sentence tells you which meaning is intended.

It can mean either, depending on context.

With a sentence about a cat and plants, English would usually translate it more naturally as likes rather than loves:

القطة بتحب الزرع = the cat likes the plants / greenery

Arabic حب often covers a range that includes both like and love.

الزرع usually refers to:

• plants
• greenery
• vegetation
• crops

In this sentence, it most likely means the plants or the greenery around the neighbors’ place.

So القطة بتحب الزرع is something like:

• the cat likes the plants
• the cat likes the greenery

It does not have to mean formal agriculture here; in everyday speech it can simply mean plants.

Arabic often uses the definite form for things understood as a known set or as a general class.

So الزرع can mean:

• the plants (specific plants in that situation)
• plants/the greenery in a general sense

That is very natural in Arabic. English sometimes uses no article where Arabic prefers ال.

A rough pronunciation would be:

fīh oṭṭa sughayyara ʿand girānna, wel-oṭṭa bitḥibb ez-zarʿ

A few Egyptian pronunciation points:

• ج in جيراننا is usually pronounced like hard g, not English j
• ق in قطة is often pronounced as a glottal stop in Egyptian speech
• ال before ز in الزرع is pronounced with assimilation, so it sounds like ez-zarʿ, not al-zarʿ

So this sentence sounds clearly Egyptian.

A more MSA-style version might be:

هناك قطة صغيرة عند جيراننا، والقطة تحب الزرع.

or

توجد قطة صغيرة عند جيراننا، والقطة تحب الزرع.

Main differences:

• Egyptian commonly uses فيه for there is
• Egyptian present tense often uses بـ as in بتحب
• Egyptian pronunciation is different, especially ج and ق

So the sentence you have is natural Egyptian Arabic, not formal written Arabic.