انا بحب الورد، لكن اختي بتحب الزرع اكتر.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation would be:

ana baḥebb el-ward, lākin okhti bteḥebb ez-zarʿ aktar.

A few notes:

• أنا = ana
• بحب = baḥebb
• الورد = el-ward
• لكن = lākin
• أختي / اختي = okhti
• بتحب = bteḥebb
• الزرع = ez-zarʿ
• أكتر = aktar

Notice that الزرع is pronounced ez-zarʿ, not el-zarʿ, because ز is a sun letter, so the l sound of ال blends into the next consonant.

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ is commonly used with the present tense to describe:

• habitual actions
• general facts
• things you usually like/do

So:

• بحب = I like / I love
• بتحب = she likes / she loves (or you like, depending on context)

Without getting too deep into grammar, the بـ here is a normal feature of everyday Egyptian present tense verbs.

Because أختي means my sister, and sister is feminine.

In Egyptian Arabic, the present-tense form for she likes/loves is:

• هي بتحب = she likes

So:

• أختي بتحب = my sister likes

Also, بتحب can sometimes mean you like (addressing one male), but here the subject أختي makes it clear that it means she likes.

Yes, you absolutely could say:

• بحب الورد

That already means I like flowers/roses, because the verb form tells you the subject is I.

But أنا is often added for:

• emphasis
• clarity
• contrast

In this sentence, there is a contrast between me and my sister, so أنا sounds natural:

• أنا بحب الورد، لكن أختي...
• I like flowers, but my sister...

It is made of:

• أخت = sister
• ـي = my

So:

• أختي = my sister

In informal writing, people often write اختي without the hamza (أ), but it means the same thing.

The usual pronunciation in Egyptian is okhti.

This is very common in Arabic.

In English, we often speak generally with no article or with plurals:

• I like flowers
• She likes plants

In Arabic, a general category is often expressed with the:

• الورد
• الزرع

So here, الـ does not necessarily mean one specific set of flowers or plants. It can refer to the category in general.

That is why:

• بحب الورد can mean I like flowers/roses
• بتحب الزرع can mean she likes plants/greenery/gardening

It can depend on context.

In many situations, ورد literally refers to roses, but in everyday speech it can also be used more loosely for flowers in general.

So if the translation you were shown says flowers, that is very natural in context.

Likewise, الزرع is broader than one single English word. It can suggest:

• plants
• greenery
• things that are grown
• gardening/plants in general

أكتر means more.

At the end of this sentence, it means something like:

• more
• more so
• more than that
• rather

So:

• أختي بتحب الزرع أكتر = my sister likes plants more

The comparison is understood from the earlier part of the sentence. In fuller speech, you could make the comparison more explicit, such as:

• أختي بتحب الزرع أكتر مني = My sister likes plants more than I do

But in your sentence, just أكتر works fine.

That is a very natural position in Egyptian Arabic.

Arabic often places words like أكتر after the thing being described:

• بتحب الزرع أكتر
• literally: she likes plants more

This sounds normal and idiomatic in Egyptian.

Yes. A very common everyday alternative in Egyptian Arabic is:

• بس

So you could also hear:

• أنا بحب الورد، بس أختي بتحب الزرع أكتر.

Both mean but, but:

• بس is extremely common in casual speech
• لكن is also used and may sound a bit more neutral or slightly more formal, depending on context

The verb حب in Arabic covers a range that can include both like and love, depending on context.

So:

• بحب الورد could mean I like flowers
• in another context, بحبك could mean I love you

The exact English translation depends on tone and situation. In your sentence, like is the most natural translation.

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Signs of that include:

• بحب / بتحب as everyday Egyptian present forms
• أكتر as a common colloquial form of more
• the overall sentence structure and vocabulary sounding natural in spoken Egyptian

In Modern Standard Arabic, the sentence would look different, for example with forms like أحب and تحب instead of بحب and بتحب.

Yes. In very casual Egyptian speech, many people would probably say:

• أنا بحب الورد، بس أختي بتحب الزرع أكتر.

That may sound a little more conversational.

But your original sentence is still perfectly understandable and natural. It is just slightly less casual than using بس.