• Male human beings
• Male animals
• Days of week
• Months of year
• Seasons of year
• Directions
• Names of some countries (der Iran, der Irak)
• Nouns ending in -er / -en / -el (some exceptions) / - ig  / -ich / -ling
• Most nouns ending in -ant / -är / -ast / -ent / -eur / -ier / -ist
• Most nouns ending in -ismus / -or / -us

• Female human beings
• Female animals
• Names of most trees
• Names of most flowers
• Names of most fruit (exception - der Apfel)
• Some countries (die Niederlande, die Turkei, die Tschechische Republik, die Vereinigten Staaten / USA, die Schweiz)
• Nouns ending in -e / -in / -innem (plural)  / -age / -heit / -keit
• Nouns ending in -schaft / -ie / -ik / -ek / -eke / -ion
• Nouns ending in -ung / -ur

• Nouns ending in the suffix -chen or -lein
• Names of cities
• Names of most countries
• Names of metals and chemical elements
• Nouns ending in -ium / ment / -eum / -ium / -uim / -ett
• Infinitive Verbs used as Nouns

• The gender of a compound noun is determined by the last word in the combination

der Arm / das Band / die Uhr = die Armbanduhr