2.
eh, ni-, ta-
to be assured; to be self confident; to be "so sure" of the result; to be secure about an uncertainty; sometimes, to be overly
confident.
The reason now we didn't win the ball game, is because actually [we were] already assured by him.
Actually, [it was] so sure now by him [that] he could get that woman to be courted by him, when the result was he simply did
not get her.
Of course, he was so sure he would get the woman he was hoping to court, but the outcome was, he wasn't able to get her.