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The s is called "Fugen-s" and is not always used. There is no general rule for its use, so its appliance is a question of feeling.
It is generally used when the first word ends with -tum, -ling, -ion, -tät, -heit, -keit, -schaft, -sicht, -ung as well as with Verbs used as Noun ending with -en:
Altertumsforschung, Frühlingserwachen, Kommunionsfest, ...
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The function of adverbs is to qualify verbs, adverbs or - as in this example - adjectives. Adverbs do not have any inflection.
If original would be an adjective, describing the noun, only then this word had to be adapt to indicate number, case etc.
That said, originales Eis would describe Eis as original which, obviously, is not what this sentence intend to ...
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As bummis link proves the word darohne used to exist. So why did it disappear? I can only speculate but speculate I can.
So the da in the da-words is like a verbal index finger pointing at whatever is being connected with the preposition. Ohne however implies that something is NOT there. Pointing at something that is not there is kind of hard... so maybe ...
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I've been living in Germany for about 2 years and am now approaching fluency in the language. There is no such thing as "darohne", if you want to use it in a Nebensatz, as detraraveller said, it is ohne das, or whatever nomitative article you need.
You of course can not use a da compound for any sort of Genetiv preposition:
wegen, deshalb, trotz, etc...
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As a student of German language, from what I know, darohne doesn't exist. You have to say ohne das etc...
And not directly related to the question but i hope you know that you cannot use da words for humans. You can only use it for non-living things. I would be looking forward to some experienced person answering this question...
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