The article dwells on the level of usage of classifiers and measure words used to quantify time and distance in Tajik, Mandarin Chinese, and English. These languages represent distinct typological profiles (synthetic, isolating, and analytic, respectively), leading to significant differences in how these concepts are grammatically encoded. The analysis of linguistic data, drawn from dictionaries, grammars, and example sentences, reveals that Tajik utilizes a limited set of dedicated measure words combined with inflectional morphology on the noun, while Mandarin Chinese employs a rich system of classifiers that categorize nouns based on shape, function, and other semantic features. English relies primarily on measure words without noun inflection or classification.