What did you go there for? vs What did you went there for?

The correct phrase is "What did you go there for?". The use of "went" in the second phrase is incorrect because the auxiliary verb "did" already indicates past tense, so the base form of the main verb (go) should be used.

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What did you go there for?

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is the correct way to ask someone about the purpose of their visit to a place in the past. The structure follows the pattern of auxiliary verb 'did' + subject + base form of the main verb + complement.

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What did you go there for?
What did you go near Goblins for?
What did you go in for, then?
What did you go and do, Vincent?
What did you go to Poshteh for?
What did you go to prison for?
What did you go tearing up my radio for?
What did you go out for?
What did you go to Russia to get that?
Martha. What did you go to the doctor for?
What did you go as this year?
What did you go off and leave me for?
"What did you go to America for?"
What did you go to Russia to get that?
Martha. What did you go to the doctor for?
What did you go and do that for?
What did you go to school for? What was your job/career before becoming a stay-at-home dad?
What did you go and do that for?
Come on, ask me! "What did you go to America for?"
So - so what did you go to San Quentin prison for, Peter?
So what did you go with?

What did you went there for?

This phrase is incorrect in English. The use of 'went' after 'did' is not grammatically correct.

The verb 'went' should not be used after the auxiliary verb 'did' in this context. Stick to the base form of the main verb 'go' when forming questions in the past tense.

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What did you went there for?
I know what you did when you went looking for me.
I wanted to tell you what I did when you went home from Japan.
Lydia... What did you see when you went downstairs?
What did you see when you went in there?
What did you see when you went forward?
What did you learn when you went at two in the morning to conduct field interviews?
Subtitles by 'Saad Gouzou' What did you see when you went forward?
Speaking of data, what did you learn when you went to visit the captain's lover yesterday?
And, what did you see when you went in the room?
(Morton) What did you do when you went to Frank's house that night?
What you did tonight went a long way toward reassuring them.
What you did tonight went a long way toward reassuring them.
And what did you see when you went to the window to close the curtains?
What did they call you when you went outside?
What did you think would happen when you went AWOL?
What did you come across when you went inside, Sheriff?
When you went through, something went wrong.
So you went behind my back and went to Stephen Huntley.
When you went to prison, journalists found me wherever I went.
You went away, and everything went smooth.

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