Test your knowledge on irregular verbs

As promised in my post about the quirks of irregular verbs, now you can drop by here to test your knowledge of the different irregular verbs in English. Exercises are graded in degrees of difficulty: level 0 (the usual list you can fin in the most basic books), level 1 (the list that students in 'Bachillerato' receive and study), level 2 (some weird, but somehow familiar, irregular verbs) and level 3 (the most difficult irregular verbs). Have a go at the different tables and tell me in which level you are. Then check your answers down below. Ready, steady, go ! 

Level 0 

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE
Ride
Swim
Read
Blow
Teach
Break
Leave
Bite
Sit
Wake

Level 1

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE
Bleed
Sink
Sweep
Dig
Kneel
Rise
Flee
Bear
Cast
Forbid

Level 2

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE
Dwell
Sting
Beseech
Spit
Sow
Forsake
Bind
Slit
Thrust
Thrive

Level 3

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE
Bereave
Chide
Bid
Slay
Sneak
Crow
Tread
Weave
Shear
Rive

Answers (with the meaning of irregular verbs)

Level 0

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE	MEANING
Ride	Rode	Ridden	To sit on and manage a small vehicle or a small animal, e.g. a horse or a bicycle
Swim	Swam	Swum	To move in the water by using your hands and legs
Read [ri:d]	Read [red]	Read [red]	To look at something written to understand its meaning
Blow	Blew	Blown	To produce air with your mouth
Teach	Taught	Taught	To impart knowledge
Break	Broke	Broken	To fracture and smash something into pieces
Leave	Left	Left	To go out of a place
Bite	Bit	Bitten	To cut something with your teeth
Sit	Sat	Sat	To rest the body on a chair or some kind of seat
Wake	Woke	Woken	The opposite of ‘sleep’

NOTES: 'Ride' is conjugated as 'stride'
               'Swim' is conjugated as 'ring', 'drink', 'begin', 'sink', 'stink' 'spring' and 'shrink'

Level 1

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE	MEANING
Bleed	Bled	Bled	To lose blood
Sink	Sank (or sometimes 'sunk')	Sunk (or 'sunken', especially as an adjective)	To descend into the water involuntarily
Sweep	Swept	Swept	To remove the dust with a broom
Dig	Dug	Dug	To remove earth with a shovel or spade
Kneel	Knelt	Knelt	To lean on your own knees
Rise	Rose	Risen	To move from a lower to higher position
Flee	Fled	Fled	To escape from a danger
Bear	Bore	Borne (born as an adjective)	To give birth, or to support something
Cast	Cast	Cast	To throw or drop something
Forbid	Forbade (or forbad or forbid)	Forbidden (or forbid)	To ban or prohibit

NOTES: 'Kneel' is conjugated as 'weep', 'sweep' and 'creep'

Level 2

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE	MEANING
Dwell	Dwelt/dwelled	Dwelt/dwelled	To live or inhabit
Sting	Stung	stung	To pick someone with a sharp poisonous part of the body, e.g. jellyfish sting with their tentacles
Beseech	Besought/beseeched	Besought/beseeched	To beg or ask urgently
Spit	Spat (or spit)	Spat (or spit)	To expel saliva
Sow	Sowed	Sown (or sowed)	To scatter seeds on the ground for plants to grow
Forsake	Forsook	Forsaken	To abandon
Bind	Bound	Bound	To tie something with a rope or similar or to put a bandage on someone
Slit	Slit	Slit	To cut something deeply
Thrust	Thrust	Thrust	To push forcefully
Thrive	Throve (or thrived)	Thriven (or thrived)	To prosper or grow well, to flourish

NOTES:  'Seek' is conjugated as 'beseech'
                 'Sting' is conjugated as the verbs 'wring', 'swing', 'spin', 'stick', 'slink' and 'fling'
                 'Sow' is conjugated as 'mow' and 'showed'
                 'Bind' is conjugated as 'grind' and 'wind'
                'Strive' is conjugated as 'thrive'

Level 3

INFINITIVE	SIMPLE PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE	MEANING
Bereave	Bereft/bereaved	Bereft/bereaved	To deprive someone of something and make them miserable
Chide	Chid (or chided)	Chidden (or chided)	To nag someone or to express disapproval
Bid	1) Bade 2) Bid	1) Bidden 2) Bid	1) To command or say a greeting 2) To offer a certain amount of money for an object
Slay	Slew	Slain	To kill violently
Sneak	Sneaked/snuck	Sneaked/snuck	To move without being noticed
Crow	Crew (British) / crowed (American)	Crowed	To cry of pleasure
Tread	Trod	Trodden	To step or stomp
Weave	Wove (or weaved)	Woven	To lace thread or something similar together to form a whole
Shear	Sheared	Sheared/shorn	To remove hair from an animal
Rive	Rived	Rived/riven	To tear or rend apart

How did it go ? Did my test make you sweat ? If you want to keep learning more irregular verbs, here you have a list of them. Some verbs are missing (like 'beseech') but it is quite a good list. I hope you keep practising them so as not to forget them !