Sasak has a variety of clitics, a grammatical unit pronounced as part of a word (like an affix) but a separate word syntactically—similar to the English language clitic 'll. Simple clitics occur in a demonstrative specifier attached to a previous noun or noun phrase; for example, "ni"("this") in "dengan ni" ("this person"). Special clitics occur with noun hosts to encode inalienable possession, and with other hosts to encode agents and patients. For example, the possessive clitic "ku" (or "kò" or "k", depending on dialect)—which means "my" and corresponds to the pronoun "aku" ("I")—can attach to the noun "ime" ("hand") for "imengku" ("my hand").