Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Finnish declension/reply (17)

Finnish does not have passive in exactly tha same sense as in English. Quote from Wikipedia article : "The passive voice (sometimes called impersonal or indefinite) resembles a "fourth person" similar to, e.g., English "people say/do/". Your example "They were welcomed" is "Heidät toivotettiin tervetulleeksi", i.e. it really has an object, grammatically speaking.