Time is an abstract concept. It does not depend on a person. Time is impossible to stop, reverse, and overtake. However, a human being divided it into segments, and made it subjective. For instance, one “objective” segment of time can be long or short, pleasant or hard. Subjective mark for time depends on a person’s condition, his mood, the particular situation, a company and the attitudes towards time in a particular society. For example, time drags on, spend time well, hard times.

 This article tries to classify the units of the temporal concept of time. It is necessary to mention that the table used in the article is based on Karakalpak Folklore Volumes 67-76 (Nukus Ilim-2014) and “English fairy tales” (ABC-CLIO,Inc., press, Santa Barbara, California-2002) which was collected by Joseph Jacobs in 1890 and it consists of 206 pages and 43 fairy tales.