Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch is a variety of Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the United States and Canada. There are approximately 300,000 native speakers of Pennsylvania German in the United States and Canada.
All tenses, except the present, are formed periphrastically with one or more auxiliary verbs and the infinitive or past past participle of the main verb.