Informační systém evidence obyvatel není registr obyvatel.

The population-records information system is not the population register.

Breakdown of Informační systém evidence obyvatel není registr obyvatel.

• být: to be
• informační systém evidence obyvatel: the population-records information system
• registr obyvatel: the population register

Questions & Answers about Informační systém evidence obyvatel není registr obyvatel.

How should I parse Informační systém evidence obyvatel? It feels like a lot of nouns packed together.

The main noun is systém = system.

Everything else describes that noun:

• informační systém = information system
• evidence obyvatel = records of residents / resident records

So the whole phrase is structured like this:

• [Informační systém] [evidence obyvatel]
• more precisely: information system of the records of residents

In smoother English, you would usually translate it less literally, for example as the information system for population records or the information system of resident records, depending on context.

What does evidence mean here? It looks like the English word evidence.

This is a very important false friend.

In Czech, evidence often means:

• record-keeping
• registration
• official records

It does not usually mean English evidence = proof.

So here evidence obyvatel means something like:

• records of residents
• resident registration
• population records

not proof of residents.

Why is it systém evidence, not systém evidenci?