Did you go OR did you went

Hi

I am not a native english speaker.People around me very often speak "Did you went"

not did you go.They are thinking "Went" is past tense verb and "go " is present tense verb ,

so "did you go" contains "Go" verb which is present tense so you need to say "Did you went " here

went is past tense verb it shows this is past tense.

Which is correct among these and why do we need to use present verb in past tense.

Help appreciated.

Thanks CJ for the reply.

The tense is carried out by auxiliary verb in past tense, why do we need to change the past verb to bare infinity in question and negative form. such as "did you go " in other tense you dont alter verb

such as "i am going" "are you going"

why do we need to change the verb only in past tense.any specific reason.

Thanks

why do we need to change the past verb to a bare infinity infinitive in question and negative form

Only one past marker is allowed within a single clause.  The auxiliary takes the past marker, so the main verb cannot.  The regular past marker is d, but some verbs are irregular, of course.  The past marker for do is did.  The past marker for go is went.  Since you can't have more than one past marker in the same clause, you can't have both did and went in the same clause.

You can express the affirmative forms without an auxiliary, so there the main verb takes the past marker.  It has to; it's the only verb in the sentence.

He went.

But if you express the affirmative with the auxiliary (the so-called "emphatic" form), did carries the past marker and so go cannot.

He did go.  (Never He did went.)

The question and negative forms always use the auxiliary so the main verb can never take the past marker in those cases.

He didn't go.  Did he go?  Didn't he go?

CJ

For more on grammatical tense markers, see Post:255817.