Dayal (2004a) predicts a language in which bare plurals have more restricted existential readings than bare singulars, ‘Hindi-in-reverse’, to be impossible. In this paper, I show that Farsi is in fact such a language. Dayal (2004a) argues that bare nominals in determiner-less languages are ambiguous between kind terms and definites. The difference between bare singulars and plurals arises because the number morphology constrains the cardinality of the set instantiated by bare nominals. While singular kinds denote atomic entities that do not allow access to the objects in their extension, plural kinds instantiate a plurality, subgroup of which are accessible. While Farsi is not a determiner-less language and only lacks a definite marker, Dayal’s (2004) ranking of type-shifters (in which \ and outrank 9) predicts no difference between determiner-less languages and languages that only lack definite markers, because 9 is blocked or outranked in both kinds of languages. Therefore, the expectation based on Dayal (2004a) is for Farsi bare nominals to pattern like Hindi, which is contrary to fact. Nonetheless, I argue that the Dayal’s account can be extended to Farsi, for which I propose that the unexpected pattern arises due to the special property of plural marking as a MAX operator in this language. Adapting Dayal’s (2004b) proposal for the role of modification in licensing bare plurals in Italian, I explain how