Answer:
The verb "ride" means to sit on and control the movement of a means of transportation such as a bike, car, or a horse, as well as to be a passenger being conveyed in or on such a means of transportation. The verb is used in English to express how a person or thing is using that transportation, such as, "I rode in a car" or "He rides a horse."
Ride is an irregular verb because it does not take a regular conjugation pattern. For example, the verb "want" is a regular verb in English, where the present tense is simply the verb, itself, often preceded by a pronoun, such as "I want," or an infinitive, such as "to want." For a regular verb in the past tense, you would simply add "ed," as in "I wanted."
By contrast, "ride" is an irregular verb because its conjugations do not follow the pattern of a regular-conjugation verb such as "want." The verb takes the same conjugations as the irregular verb "drive," for example, which conjugates with a pattern of "drive-drove-driven," depending on the tense. The verb "ride," then, is the same as a regular verb in English, taking the form "ride" in the present tense. But in the past tense, the root changes, with the "i" changing to "o," to form the verb "rode." The past participle is completely different, but more on that below.
