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Descubrimos el secreto para vivir sin miedo.

Descubrimos el secreto para vivir sin miedo.
We discovered the secret to living without fear.
From Lesson 128:The preterite tense of -er and -ir verbs (-í, -ió)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Descubrimos el secreto para vivir sin miedo.

Why does descubrimos translate to "we discovered"? Isn't that the present tense?
It is actually both! For regular -ar and -ir verbs, the nosotros (we) form is exactly the same in the present tense and the preterite (past) tense. You have to rely on the context of the conversation to know if it means "we discover" or "we discovered".
If descubrimos is the "we" form, what are the other past tense endings for descubrir?
Regular -ir verbs share the exact same preterite endings as regular -er verbs. The pattern to add to the stem is -í, -iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, and -ieron. For example, "I discovered" is descubrí and "they discovered" is descubrieron.
The English translation says "living", so why doesn't the Spanish sentence use the "-ing" form viviendo?
In Spanish, whenever a verb directly follows a preposition like para (for/to), sin (without), or de (of), it must stay in its basic dictionary form, the infinitive. Even though English uses the "-ing" form here, Spanish requires the infinitive vivir.
How does the word miedo work here?
Miedo is a masculine noun that means "fear". Saying sin miedo translates literally and smoothly to "without fear". You will also see this noun used in the very common phrase tener miedo, which literally means "to have fear" but is the standard Spanish way to say "to be afraid".

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