Texting
mdr
TextingTexting onlyB1Meaning
mort de rire
What you write in a message to say you are laughing. It is the French « lol », written in lowercase, often stretched: mdrrr.
How it is said
mort de rire
Gender and article
no article
Where you meet it
A text, an online comment, a group chat.
Example
T'as vu la photo du chat ? mdr je suis morte
Did you see the cat photo? lol I'm dead
In the DELF
reading B1
Watch out
Never in an exam paper, nor in an email to a stranger. In speech nobody says « èm-dé-èr »: you laugh, or you say « mort de rire ».