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I know in the case of only "essere" as an auxiliary verb, the past participle should have agreement with gender or number of subject, but in this sentences there are no subjects in both two sentences and with the same auxiliary verb "avere" Once it has declension and agrees with object and another time it doesn't! Why participle here (lasciato) doesn't correspond with direct object in the case of gender

Ieri mi ha lasciato (without correspondence with "La macchina") di nuovo a piedi.

while in following sentence (descritta) it does?

Da come me l'ha descritta (correspondence with "la macchina della mia amica") credo che sia un'occasione.

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    Possible duplicate of Baciato vs Baciata and of Past participle and changing endings with auxiliary verb “avere”.
    – DaG
    Nov 8, 2016 at 16:25
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    And, anyhow, in Ieri mi ha lasciato ... a piedi the agreement of lasciato is with the object (not the subject) of the sentence, who seemingly is a male. A woman would say ...mi ha lasciata...
    – DaG
    Nov 8, 2016 at 16:28
  • @DaG In both sentences the subject is absent! And the we should check the agreement with "object"!
    – Armin
    Nov 8, 2016 at 16:50
  • @DaG, The referred question only talks about "No agreement with subject in the case of avere "
    – Armin
    Nov 8, 2016 at 16:54
  • I am not sure I understand your comment, but the answers to both questions explicitly explain the only agreement your sentences need, that with the object (complemento oggetto). Did you read them? If they leave something unexplained, please adjust consequently your question.
    – DaG
    Nov 8, 2016 at 17:04

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In the case of object with the pronouns that are placed as "object" (such as lo, la, li, le) the agreement is essential:

Da come me l'ha descritta (correspondence with "la macchina della mia amica") credo che sia un'occasione.

But, in other case, If we have a conjunction: a) the verb is not reflexive, the agreement is optional:

La frutta che Carla ha comprato(a)

b)In the case of reflexive verb, it doesn't have agreement or declension:

Il libro che Carla si è comprata

And the last case (where these conditions above don't occur, the past participle doesn't agree with object; so we don't have declension in this third case.

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    Your ideas on the topic don't seem to be too clear, or you are not explaining them clearly... For instance, are you sure that in the first sentence la refers to la mia amica? In which sense is a female friend a bargain...? Secondly, in the last seventy years almost nobody would say La frutta che Carla ha comprata. In the third sentence, there is some agreement, since comprata is feminine. And so on. Please, re-read the other answers on the same subject.
    – DaG
    Nov 8, 2016 at 17:41
  • It exactly refers to la machina della mia amica which both are feminine, I know you don't believe in me so read the whole sentence: "Mia amica vende la sua macchina, e da come me l'ho descritta credo che sia un'occasione." And in the case of second argument, If you really think "almost nobody would say che Carla ha comprata " , here's another example of the same book: "I giornali che Carla ha comprato(i). "
    – Armin
    Nov 9, 2016 at 7:45

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