Past simple and past participle
cleave
Cleave is an irregular verb: its past simple is cleft or cleaved or clove and its past participle is cleft or cleaved or cloven.
- Base form
- cleave
- Past simple
- cleft or cleaved or clove
- Past participle
- cleft or cleaved or cloven
- Definition
- Split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.
- Example
- “The large axe his father used to cleave wood for the fire.”
- CEFR level
- C2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The past simple and the past participle are the same, like bring, brought, brought.