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They are everyday Danish ways to say that and this.
- den der stige = that ladder
- den her = this one / this
Literally, der means there and her means here, so the phrases have a built-in sense of distance:
- den her = the one here → this
- den der = the one there → that
With singular common-gender nouns like stige, you use den. With a neuter noun, you would use det instead:
- det her hus = this house
- det der hus = that house