This is a pair of words that sound identical and have the same letters but have very different meanings and are very different in other tenses.

pride: feelings of self-respect, value, and worth, especially after an achievement or about a particular aspect of self/life
Mary takes pride in her work and her customer’s feedback.
He has pride; she is proud

pried: to have peered or looked into something beyond a casual glance; to have levered things apart
Tom pried the board off the fence so he could see inside.
She pried into his papers; a spy will pry into many things.